[Sundaycommunity] The Pope’s final sermon began with the words, “Mary Magdalene.”

[Dave Snelgrove]

Yes, thank you, David.  We were blessed to have this man as a guide and
teacher In our sorry world.  He kept showing us the beauty that exists
alongside what he recognized as wrong.  WE have to persist in truth and
love.  Rosemary Gray-Snelgrove

On Mon, Apr 21, 2025, 10:47 PM sylvia skrepichuk via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> Thanks David
> I'll keep this and your reflection on Mary Magdalene.
> Peace
> Sylvia
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> Sent from my Galaxy
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> From: David Walsh via Sundaycommunity <
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> Date: 2025-04-21 10:25 p.m. (GMT-05:00)
> To: "Sunday Community (sundaycommunity at integralshift.ca)" <
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> Cc: David Walsh <david at dwalsh.ca>
> Subject: [Sundaycommunity] The Pope’s final sermon began with the words,
> “Mary Magdalene.”
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> The Pope’s final sermon
> <https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/pope-francis?utm_source=substack&publication_id=47400&post_id=161800335&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=m65gw&triedRedirect=true>
> began with the words, “Mary Magdalene.”
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> The entire sermon is beautiful — and I found it spiritually stunning. In
> it, Pope Francis elevated Mary Magdalene to the same status (maybe even a
> higher status!) as Peter and John, the two most significant disciples. Some
> of this happens “between the lines,” but there’s a lot happening
> theologically in this homily. He transformed the witness of two into a
> triad of three, lifting her (he continually lists her first) as a model for
> the entire church and faithful discipleship.
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> From his *Easter sermon
> <https://substack.com/redirect/71598f4f-2eb5-4c54-923a-0856fd80e08c?j=eyJ1IjoibTY1Z3cifQ.Qk9Y8Z2oXJGLMc_ZMUvMuiNPsyY1yjwhQNaq4oJSzfU>:*
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> *Mary Magdalene, seeing that the stone of the tomb had been rolled away,
> ran to tell Peter and John. After receiving the shocking news, the two
> disciples also went out and — as the Gospel says — “the two were running
> together” (Jn 20:4). The main figures of the Easter narratives all ran! On
> the one hand, “running” could express the concern that the Lord’s body had
> been taken away; but, on the other hand, the haste of Mary Magdalene, Peter
> and John expresses the desire, the yearning of the heart, the inner
> attitude of those who set out to search for Jesus. He, in fact, has risen
> from the dead and therefore is no longer in the tomb. We must look for him
> elsewhere.*
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> *This is the message of Easter: we must look for him elsewhere. Christ is
> risen, he is alive! He is no longer a prisoner of death, he is no longer
> wrapped in the shroud, and therefore we cannot confine him to a fairy tale,
> we cannot make him a hero of the ancient world, or think of him as a statue
> in a museum! On the contrary, we must look for him and this is why we
> cannot remain stationary. We must take action, set out to look for him:
> look for him in life, look for him in the faces of our brothers and
> sisters, look for him in everyday business, look for him everywhere except
> in the tomb.*
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> *We must look for him without ceasing. Because if he has risen from the
> dead, then he is present everywhere, he dwells among us, he hides himself
> and reveals himself even today in the sisters and brothers we meet along
> the way, in the most ordinary and unpredictable situations of our lives. He
> is alive and is with us always, shedding the tears of those who suffer and
> adding to the beauty of life through the small acts of love carried out by
> each of us.*
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> *For this reason, our Easter faith, which opens us to the encounter with
> the risen Lord and prepares us to welcome him into our lives, is anything
> but a complacent settling into some sort of “religious reassurance.” On the
> contrary, Easter spurs us to action, to run like Mary Magdalene and the
> disciples; it invites us to have eyes that can “see beyond,” to perceive
> Jesus, the one who lives, as the God who reveals himself and makes himself
> present even today, who speaks to us, goes before us, surprises us. Like
> Mary Magdalene, every day we can experience losing the Lord, but every day
> we can also run to look for him again, with the certainty that he will
> allow himself to be found and will fill us with the light of his
> resurrection.*
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> *Today, Pope Francis ran into the tender embrace of a loving God. *
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