Gospel John 20:11-18
But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!” (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God’.” Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”; and she told them that he had said these things to her.

The message
Mary Magdalene is inconsolable, shattered by grief. Jesus, her Lord and master, has been put to death, and now when she goes to his tomb to mourn, she discovers that it is empty, the body of Jesus is not there. When the angels ask her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” she tells them that they have taken away her Lord. She is so caught up in her sorrow that when she turns around and sees Jesus she does not recognise him. She thinks he is the gardener. When he repeats the questions, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” she still fails to know him. She is looking for a dead body, after all.
And then Jesus calls her by her name, and it is enough. Suddenly, Mary recognises him. She sees that it is indeed Jesus. Overcome with joy, she reaches out to touch him, but instead he orders her to tell the disciples what she has just seen and heard.
Her weeping turned to joy, her despair turned to hope, Mary rushes to tell the disciples the extraordinary good news that Jesus is risen from the dead. She becomes the first messenger of the resurrection.

The lesson
He called her by name and it changed everything. Up until that moment she did not recognise him. Even when he stood in front of her and spoke to her, she failed to recognise him. And then he called her by name. And Mary Magdalene recognised him as her living Lord and saviour.
Calling by name is important. When someone calls us by our name, we know they know us; that they recognise us. It establishes a bond, affirms a link, makes a connection.
When Jesus called Mary by name, he was doing the same. He was recognising her as “one of his own.” And it changed her life completely. It healed her. It brought her back from death to life, from despair to hope. She experienced the resurrection, and she went and brought that good news to others. For her, nothing was ever the same again.
The Lord has called each of us by name too. He recognises each of us as his own. He claimed ownership of us at our baptism. And called by name, we must go forth, like Mary Magdalene, to be witnesses to his living, healing, loving presence in our broken world and broken Church.

The challenge
When Mary Magdalene went to the tomb of Jesus, she was full of despair, anger, grief, confusion. And then she encountered the risen Jesus. Her grief turned to joy, her despair to hope. She became a changed person.
These last months especially have been painful for our Church. We have experienced so much sorrow, anger, and pain as we have tried to come to grips with the awful revelations of abuse and wrong-doing by clergy and religious. We know that nothing can be the same again, that there must be change, renewal, new life. But we know, too, that the risen Lord is with us, and will never abandon us. That is why we can move forward with confidence as agents of change in our Church and world and bearers of hope for all.

The Prayer
“Lord, you have called me by name. Help me always to witness to you. Amen.”

--- Prayers for the Mass ---

Opening Prayer
Lord,
You are our hope and our strength,
The one in whom our lives find meaning.
Open the horizons of our minds,
That we might recognise you,
For in you alone do our hearts find rest.
We ask this through Christ Our Lord.

Prayer over the Gifts:
God of all truth,
Receive these offerings, chosen from your many gifts.
May this Eucharist help us to grow in holiness and faith.
Grant this through Christ Our Lord.

Concluding Prayer:
Lord our God,
As we follow the example of Mary,
Our Mother of Perpetual Help,
May our lives be transformed and our hearts renewed.
Help us to seek Christ, the Way, the Truth and the Life.
We ask this through Christ Our Lord.

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