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We recall the journey of Christ - of his Passion, Death and Resurrection. We re - live the moments that mark the Holy Triduum and through prayers and reflection, we get into the essence of each of these events daily.
At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.
He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”
Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”
Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).
Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
(John 20: 14 -17)
In his book, the Holy Longing, Fr Ronald Rolheiser says this:
"Mary, do not cling to me!"
What lies behind Jesus' reluctance to let Mary touch him? Mary herself, had we ever found her gospel, would, I suspect, explain it this way:
I never suspected
Resurrection
and to be so painful
to leave me weeping
With joy
to have met you, alive and smiling, outside and empty tomb
With regret
not because I've lost you
but because I've lost you in how I had you -
in understandable, touchable, kissable, clingable
flesh
not as fully Lord, but as graspably human.
I want to cling, despite your protest
cling to your body
cling to your, and my, clingable humanity
cling to what we had, our past.
But I know that ... if I cling
you can not ascend and
I will be left clinging to your former self
... unable to receive your present spirit.
This image is of a sculpture found at the Church of Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem.
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