This is Holy Family School of Faith.

So welcome to our Rosary Meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

This is the feast of St. Mary Magdalene, and this meditation is brought to you by Dr. Troy Hinkle,

co-founder of the Holy Family School of Faith and the Rosary Movement.

So let's call to bind all those that we've promised to pray for.

Okay, welcome. Thank you. It's a joy to be with you.

This is the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene.

In 2016, Pope Francis elevated this feast day from a memorial to a feast day

because of the weight he wanted to give, weight of importance he wanted to give to her.

With our reflections tonight, I'm going to be taking excerpts from a homily from the Gospels

by St. Gregory the Great, among other reflections.

When Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and did not find the Lord's body, she thought it had

been taken away, and so informed the disciples.

After they came and saw the tomb, they too believed what Mary had told them. The text then says, the disciples went back home, and it adds,

but Mary wept and remained standing outside the tomb. We should reflect on Mary's attitude and the great

love she felt for Christ. For though the disciples had left the tomb, she remained. She was still

seeking the one she had not found. And while she sought, she wept, burning with the fire of love. She longed for him,

whom she thought had been taken away. And so it happened that the woman who stayed behind to seek

Christ was the only one to see him. When our desires are not satisfied, they grow stronger,

and becoming stronger, they take hold of their object. Holy desires likewise grow with anticipation.

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