"WOMAN-WHY ARE YOU WEEPING?"

 

“WOMAN-WHY ARE YOU WEEPING?”

Today we CELEBRATE the feast

Of Saint Mary Magdalene

The BEST FRIEND

That Jesus ever had-Also

CONSIDERED to be-

The APOSTLE to the apostles

She KNEW Jesus-better than anyone

And LOVED him and accepted him

As her TEACER

“Jesus said to her,

'Woman-why are you weeping?

Whom are you looking for?'”                                                              John 20:15

Mary loved Jesus- 

She gave him her heart-in life-

And she gave him her heart-

In death

How awful she must have felt

WHEN she thought Jesus 

Was dead

And the JOY and confusion

She must have felt

When she began to see

That Jesus was ALIVE-and may-

Have RESURRECTED

Just as he said

“Thinking he was the gardener-

She said-

'Sir-if you have carried him away

Tell me WHERE you have put him

And I will get him'”                                                                              John 20:15

“Jesus said to her-'Mary'-

“She turned to him and cried out

In Aramaic-'Rabboni'-

(which means “TEACHER”)                                                               John 20:16

Mary's encounter with Jesus 

SPEAKS to all of us

Who have felt the PAIN

Of human loss

And the HOPE that we feel

When we REALIZE that

They are going to spend ETERNITY

With God and the RISEN LORD

Oh-how we CAN empathize with her

Many of us-when we lose someone-

Are FORTUNATE to have the SUPPORT

Of family and friends

Still there are others of us

Who have to SUFFER our pain

And our anguish all alone

But in our time of grief-

We all look for the FAITH-

HOPE-and JOY that Mary found

She found it in Jesus- 

In the LIVING GOD

We too can FIND IT-

In God-and the Risen Lord

OUR FAITH leads us to them

The PRESENCE of God-

And the presence of others

TEACH US that the human heart

Can NEVER die

It LIVES for all of eternity

“Your word-Lord-is eternal

It stands firm in the heavens”                                                                   Psalm 119:89

“Just as Moses

Lifted up the snake

In the wilderness

So the SON OF MAN

Must be lifted up

That everyone who BELIEVES

MAY have eternal life in him”                                                            John 3:14-15

“For God-so LOVED the world

That he gave

His one and only SON

That whoever believes in him-

Shall NOT perish

But have ETERNAL LIFE”                                                                 John 3:16

I too have a friend-

Just like Jesus-had Mary

Who ALWAYS takes the time

To read my poetry

Hearts that are UNITED in life

Can NEVER be broken

Even in death

The LIVES of Jesus and Mary

Is PROOF that their relationship

Goes on forever

For in our tears-

We FIND our joy-

The JOY OF ETERNAL LIFE

Robert P. Wallman

July 21st, 2016

Ps  INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Fr. James Stephen Behrens, O.C.S.O.

Dedicated to the LIVES of Jesus and Mary-and my SPECIAL platonic friend

Ps        7-24-25-2021