Easter Tuesday

“They have taken my Lord, and I don’t know where they laid him.” John 20:13

And what can be said of Mary Magdalene? She stood weeping by the empty tomb with the sole desire to know where they had taken her Lord. She encounters him and only recognizes him when he calls her by name (cf. Jn 20: 11-18). If we seek the Lord with a simple and sincere mind, we too will find him; indeed, he himself will come to meet us; he will make us recognize him, he will call us by name, that is, he will admit us to the intimacy of his love. ~Pope Benedict XVI, 4/11/07

It is You, dear Lord -- You are the only one. May I seek no other. Amen.

Today's Saint: St. Mary Magdalene

You have seized me; I have not "grasped" You.
You have transformed my being
right down to its very last roots
and made me a sharer in Your own Being and Life.
You have given me Yourself,
not just a distant, fuzzy report of Yourself in human words.
And that's why I can never forget You,
because You have become
the very center of my being.

Karl Rahner in Encounters with Silence, p30-31