I have seen the Lord

John’s Gospel presents Mary Magdalene as the one to have first seen the risen Christ. She begins with her human eyes and ends with the eyes of faith. She wants to express her love for Jesus by going to the tomb very early in the morning. She must have only been wanting to cry at Jesus’ tomb, which seems to be a mere continuation of her former life. But her old way of living does not fit anymore in the new life offered by the risen Lord.

REFLECTIONS TODAY John’s Gospel presents Mary Magdalene as the one to have first seen the risen Christ. She begins with her human eyes and ends with the eyes of faith. She wants to express her love for Jesus by going to the tomb very early in the morning.

She must have only been wanting to cry at Jesus’ tomb, which seems to be a mere continuation of her former life. But her old way of living does not fit anymore in the new life offered by the risen Lord. Jesus is risen and now offers her a new kind of relationship.

Jesus calls her by her name. She eventually sees the fact that the tomb is empty and that the Teacher is alive, teaching her of the truth about the new relationship won by the Lord’s passion, death, and resurrection: that the God and Father of Jesus is now the God and Father of the disciples. Do we really want to see with the eyes of faith? Do we desire to move from our former way of life to a new one? Can we truly relate with God as Father? Gospel • John 20:11-18 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. Source: “365 Days with the Lord 2025,” St.

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