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Our Lady, who was accompanied by the holy women during the tremendous hours of her Son's crucifixion, did not accompany them in the pious attempt to finish embalming the dead body of Jesus. Mary Magdalene and the other women who had followed him from Galilee have forgotten the words of the Lord about his Resurrection on the third day. The Blessed Virgin knows that he will rise again. In an atmosphere of prayer, which we cannot describe, she awaits her glorified Son.
"The Gospels do not tell us of an apparition of the risen Jesus to Mary. However, since she was especially close to the cross of her Son, she had to have a privileged experience of his resurrection. A very ancient tradition of the Church transmits to us that Jesus appeared first and foremost and alone to his Mother. In the first place, because she is the first and principal co-redeemer of the human race, in perfect union with her Son. Alone, since this apparition had a reason for being very different from the other apparitions to the women and to the disciples. These had to be comforted and won over definitively to the faith. Our Lady, who had already been constituted Mother of the human race reconciled with God, never ceased to be in perfect union with the Blessed Trinity. All the hope in the Resurrection of Jesus that remained on earth had been sheltered in her heart.
We do not know in what way Jesus appeared to his Mother. He appeared to Mary Magdalene in a way that she did not recognize him at first. He joined the two disciples of Emmaus as a man on a journey. To the Apostles gathered in the Cenacle he appeared with the doors closed... To his Mother, in an intimacy that we can imagine, he was shown in such a way that she would know, in any case, his glorious state and that he would no longer continue the same life as before on earth.15 Our Lady, after so much pain, was filled with immense joy. "The morning star does not come out so beautifully," says Fr. Luis de Granada, "as that grace-filled face and that unblemished mirror of divine glory shone in our Mother's eyes. She sees the body of her risen and glorious Son, and all the ugliness of the past is gone, and the grace of those divine eyes has returned, and her first beauty has risen and increased. The openings of the wounds, which were like knives of pain for the Mother, see them become fountains of love; he who saw him suffering among thieves, see him accompanied by angels and saints; he who entrusted him from the cross to the disciple, see how he now extends his loving arms and gives him sweet peace on his face; he who had died in his arms, see him now risen before his eyes. Take him, he does not leave him; embrace him and ask him not to go away; then, speechless with grief, she did not know what to say; now, speechless with joy, she cannot speak. We join in this immense joy.
It is said that St. Thomas Aquinas, every year on this feast, advised his listeners not to fail to congratulate our Lady on the Resurrection of her Son17. This is what we do, starting today to pray the Regina Coeli, which will take the place of the Angelus during the Easter season: Rejoice, Queen of Heaven, hallelujah, for He whom you deserved to carry within you has risen, as He predicted... And we ask him that we may rise in intimate union with Jesus Christ. Let us resolve to live this Easter time very close to Holy Mary.
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Our Lady, who was accompanied by the holy women during the tremendous hours of her Son's crucifixion, did not accompany them in the pious attempt to finish embalming the dead body of Jesus. Mary Magdalene and the other women who had followed him from Galilee have forgotten the words of the Lord about his Resurrection on the third day. The Blessed Virgin knows that he will rise again. In an atmosphere of prayer, which we cannot describe, she awaits her glorified Son.
"The Gospels do not tell us of an apparition of the risen Jesus to Mary. However, since she was especially close to the cross of her Son, she had to have a privileged experience of his resurrection. A very ancient tradition of the Church transmits to us that Jesus appeared first and foremost and alone to his Mother. In the first place, because she is the first and principal co-redeemer of the human race, in perfect union with her Son. Alone, since this apparition had a reason for being very different from the other apparitions to the women and to the disciples. These had to be comforted and won over definitively to the faith. Our Lady, who had already been constituted Mother of the human race reconciled with God, never ceased to be in perfect union with the Blessed Trinity. All the hope in the Resurrection of Jesus that remained on earth had been sheltered in her heart.
We do not know in what way Jesus appeared to his Mother. He appeared to Mary Magdalene in a way that she did not recognize him at first. He joined the two disciples of Emmaus as a man on a journey. To the Apostles gathered in the Cenacle he appeared with the doors closed... To his Mother, in an intimacy that we can imagine, he was shown in such a way that she would know, in any case, his glorious state and that he would no longer continue the same life as before on earth.15 Our Lady, after so much pain, was filled with immense joy. "The morning star does not come out so beautifully," says Fr. Luis de Granada, "as that grace-filled face and that unblemished mirror of divine glory shone in our Mother's eyes. She sees the body of her risen and glorious Son, and all the ugliness of the past is gone, and the grace of those divine eyes has returned, and her first beauty has risen and increased. The openings of the wounds, which were like knives of pain for the Mother, see them become fountains of love; he who saw him suffering among thieves, see him accompanied by angels and saints; he who entrusted him from the cross to the disciple, see how he now extends his loving arms and gives him sweet peace on his face; he who had died in his arms, see him now risen before his eyes. Take him, he does not leave him; embrace him and ask him not to go away; then, speechless with grief, she did not know what to say; now, speechless with joy, she cannot speak. We join in this immense joy.
It is said that St. Thomas Aquinas, every year on this feast, advised his listeners not to fail to congratulate our Lady on the Resurrection of her Son17. This is what we do, starting today to pray the Regina Coeli, which will take the place of the Angelus during the Easter season: Rejoice, Queen of Heaven, hallelujah, for He whom you deserved to carry within you has risen, as He predicted... And we ask him that we may rise in intimate union with Jesus Christ. Let us resolve to live this Easter time very close to Holy Mary.
https://www.hablarcondios.org/meditaciondiaria.aspx