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6 days ago · Mary Magdalene’s body passed through Rome on the journey to France, the story goes, and bone fragments from her foot were given to the pope. The relics, which are held to be from the foot that first entered Christ’s empty tomb, were placed for veneration in a chapel at the beginning of the Sant’Angelo Bridge.
May 25, 2024 · Gospel. John 20:1-2, 11-18. 1 Now on the first day of the week Mary Mag'dalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 2 So she ...
5 days ago · Cardinal Burke, in his July 22nd statement on the feast of St. Mary Magdalene, asked if the pope could “juridically abrogate” the Traditional Latin Mass. The July 16 motu proprio Traditionis custodes, he said, “places restrictions” on the Traditional Mass “which signal its ultimate elimination.”
May 17, 2024 · The Roman Catholic Church's identification of Mary Magdalene with the repentant sinner in the Gospel of Luke seems to have begun with Pope St. Gregory the Great in the sixth century and persisted well into the twentieth.
May 29, 2024 · Lessons 7-9 from the Divine Office for St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, Virgin: Matth. 25: 1-13; Homily 12 on the Gospels by St. Gregory the Pope. . At that time: Jesus spake unto His disciples this parable: the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
May 13, 2024 · Like our saint for today, these Christians followed Christ’s command to live the evangelical virtue of poverty — like Magdalene, the followers of Christ, impoverished themselves to enrich the Church. One among many such generous souls was Pope St. Gregory. Pope St. Gregory the Great, our saint for today, was great on many counts.
May 28, 2024 · 3. “Magdalene Rises from the Dust” in Provence. As sources from Vézelay narrated and as the Golden Legend later popularised, it was. 14 years “after the Lord’s Passion and ascension into heaven” that Mary Magdalene arrived by boat on the shores of The Camargue, in the south of France, together with her brother Lazarus.
