Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it. Fr Steven Rindahl
~ Mark 16:9–11
“She was there at the beginning of his ministry. And she was there at the end. She was there when they were following him in cheering throngs. And she was there when they were taking his life, dashing it against the stones of temple and state, turning on him, jeering him, shouting for his death, standing by while soldiers poked and prodded him to ignominy. She tended his grave and shouted his dying glory and clung to his soul. She knew him and she did not flinch from the knowing.”* Fr Steve Rindahl
May we all enjoy the blessing of Magdalene friendships.
Blessings,
Fr Steve
Steven G Rindahl, SSJ DMin STM
Founder and Director
Warriors on the Way
* Joan Chittister, The Friendship of Women: The Hidden Tradition of the Bible (Katonah, NY: BlueBridge, 2006), 82.