Tuesday of the Easter week

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 20,11-18.

But Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb
and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been.

And they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken my Lord, and I don't know where they laid him."

When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus.
Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?" She thought it was the gardener and said to him, "Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him."

Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni," which means Teacher.

Jesus said to her, "Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

Mary of Magdala went and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and what he told her.


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“Have you seen him whom my heart loves?” (Sg 3,3)

“Why are you weeping?” You are the cause of your tears, you are the one who makes yourself cry...You cry because you do not believe in Christ: believe and you will see him. Christ is there; he never misses out those who look for him. “Why are you weeping?” Tears don't serve you any good; you need to have faith, a live faith, and worthy of God. Do not think about mortal things and you will stop crying...Why shall you be crying for what rejoices others?

“Whom are you looking for?” Can't you see that Christ is the strength of God, that Christ is the wisdom of God, that Christ is holiness, that Christ is chastity, that Christ is purity, that Christ was born of a Virgin, that Christ comes from the Father and is with the Father and is always in the Father; born and therefore not created, not rejected but always loved, true God from true God? “They have taken my Lord and I don't know where they laid him” You are mistaken, woman; you think that Christ has been taken away from the tomb by others and you do not believe that he has risen by his own power. But nobody can take away the power of God, nobody takes away the wisdom of God, nobody can take away his venerable chastity. Christ is not taken away from the tomb of the just man nor from the intimacy of the virgin and from the secrecy of his faithful soul; and even if there were someone who wanted to take him away, they could not take him away.

So the Lord tells her: “Mary, look at me”. As long as she does not believe, she is called “a woman”; when she begins to turn towards him she is called “Mary”. She receives the same name of the one who gave birth to Christ; for it is the soul that spiritually gives birth to Christ. “Look at me”, he says. Who looks at Christ, corrects himself; we lose our way when we do not look at Christ. Therefore, as she turns around, she sees him and says: “Rabbouni, which means Teacher”. The one who looks, turns around; the one who turns around, is able to seize better; the one who sees, progresses. This is why she calls “Teacher” the one she thought was dead; she found the one she thought was lost.