ON THE LOCAL CONSULTATION FOR THE SYNOD OF BISHOPS 2023

Vocations Awareness Week

Solemnity of the Assumption and Lifting of Restrictions

The Gospel tells us how the Church’s first Easter encounter with the Risen Lord was a quiet affair.  While almost all of the disciples were locked down at home, two women of their number went up to the Tomb in the dark as their representatives and carried out the necessary rites on behalf of them all. 

In today’s Gospel Mary of Magdalen comes to the Tomb.  We hear how she is still in the dark as she approaches the scene; still in the dark as to the real meaning of all that has happened since the Lord was taken away from her on Calvary, and her own Way of the Cross had begun.