Day 21!
Three weeks!
Tomorrow is St Mary Magdalene’s day, as most Catholics reckon such things. Dominicans call her “the apostle to the apostles,” because she brought tidings of the Lord’s empty tomb to the Eleven.
She had been a demoniac and what an archaic friend of mine quaintly calls “a fallen woman.”
It is probably of her that our Lord said “... for she loved much,” since she showed the fruits of forgiveness in washing His sacred feet with her tears and drying them with her hair.
Forgiven, she loved much and brought to the Apostles the greatest news ever proclaimed.
Let us, therefore, pray for grace to remember always our undeserved forgiveness, to love much, to carry the Good News to a sorry world longing for it.
Tomorrow is my birthday, too.
"675. It's true that he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgment. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that he may yet be an Augustine, while you remain just another mediocrity."