Dearest Goddaughter (LTR-69) - Whom are you looking for?

Dearest Goddaughter,

In the Book of Genesis, we read that the Lord God went looking for the man and asked: "Where are you?" (3:9) In today's Gospel, we find a woman - Mary Magdalene - searching for the Lord and Jesus asked her: "Whom are you looking for?"

From the beginning of time, God seeks out His people to bring them back to himself. In the fullness of time, He sent his only Begotten Son to die for our sins so that we may come to know the Father's love through the Son's Presence in our lives. Thus, when we encounter Jesus in our lives, as Mary Magdalene and the apostles did, our hearts desire Jesus even more and we go searching for him because only he can satisfy the deepest yearnings in our hearts.

And when we go searching for Jesus, we will find that he will call us by name, just as he called Mary by her name, and reveal himself to us. Jesus then calls us to announce him to others so that they too may see him and know and feel his loving presence in their lives as well.

Love,

Bỏ Phúc

P.S. These are the readings for the day: Acts 2:36-41 and Jn 20:11-18 (below).

. . .

Mary Magdalene 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 went and announced to the disciples,

“I have seen the Lord,”

and then reported what he had told her.