This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our rosary meditation.

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

Amen.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for,

especially for the healing of Olivia and Margo

through the intercession of Blessed Pauline Jericho.

Today is the feast of Mary Magdalene.

The exact nature of Mary's past life remains open to speculation.

For all Scripture says about it is that she was known to be a sinful woman from whom seven demons went forth.

Seven is the number that expresses completion or totality. And to speak of

seven demons may suggest that she was afflicted by all kinds of sinful habits. She had done it all,

so to speak. The fathers of the Western Church, such as Augustine, Gregory the Great, and others,

held that Mary Magdalene was the sister of Martha and Lazarus. There is an ancient

tradition that Mary was a very wealthy stock, and that her father was a man called Cyrus, who owned property all over Israel.

Upon the death of their father, her brother 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. She quickly became the subject of conversation in the town, for she was a beautiful,

as well as wealthy and witty woman, a combination that attracts sometimes the worst of company.

After several years in this dark world of the rich and famous, she was, however, left with

nothing but a bitter heart and a troubled conscience.

Magdalene was trying to find her worth and her identity in the wrong places and from the wrong people,

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