Welcome to our daily rosary meditation.

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

Amen.

We are in Magdalah.

What a wonderful place to be for the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene.

We want to give a special shout out to John Lee, great young man who is dedicated to

the rosary. Now Luke tells us that Jesus set Mary Magdalene free from seven demons, and that from that

time she was his devoted disciple, maybe the only one who really understood Jesus before

Pentecost other than his own mother, Mary.

Now, there are strong reasons to believe that Mary Magdalene was the same Mary as the sister

of Martha and Lazarus. First, many fathers of the Western Church, like Augustine, Gregory

the Great, and others, they thought this.

Second, there is an ancient tradition that Mary, Martha, and Lazarus were from a wealthy family.

Their father was a man named Cyrus, who owned property all over Israel.

Upon his death, Lazarus remained in Jerusalem, while Bethany became the home of Martha, and Mary lived in a family property by the Sea of Galilee, in a coastal town called

Magdalah, where we are today.

The third reason is that in 415 AD, St. John Cashin went to Marseille,

France and was shown there the tombs of Martha and Mary Magdalene, and it was well known that Lazarus was

considered the founder of the church there. So if Mary Magdalene is not the Mary, who is the

sister of Martha and Lazarus, then where is that Mary? Why wasn't she with her siblings? Why is she lost to history?

But if Magdalene is the sister of Martha and Lazarus, well, then we have much to learn from her.

Our father who art in heaven, hallow it be your name.

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