Memorial of Saint Mary Magdalene
Reading I
Responsorial Psalm
Gospel Reading
I
Song of Songs: 3:1-4
- On my bed at night I sought him
- whom my heart loves-
- I sought him but I did not find him
- I will rise then and go about the city;
- in the streets and crossings I will seek
- Him whom my heart loves.
- I sought him but I did not find him.
- The watchmen came upon me
- as they made their rounds of the city:
- Have you seen him whom my heart loves?
- I had hardly left them
- when I found him whom my heart loves.
- I took hold of him and would not let him go
- till I should bring him to the home of my mother,
- to the room of my parent.
Responsorial
Psalm
Exodus
15:8-9, 10 and 12, 17
R (1b) Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.
At the breath of your anger the waters piled up,
the flowing waters stood like a mound,
the flood waters congealed in the midst of the sea.
The enemy boasted, "I will pursue and overtake them;
I will divide the spoils and have my fill of them;
I will draw my sword; my hand shall despoil them!"
R Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.
When your wind blew, the sea covered them;
like lead they sank in the mighty waters.
When you stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them!
R Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.
And you brought them in and planted them on the mountain of your inheritance–
the place where you made your seat, O LORD,
the sanctuary, O LORD, which your hands established.
R Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.
Gospel
Jn 20:1-2,
11-18
On the first day of the week,
Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early in the morning,
while it was still dark,
and saw the stone removed from the tomb.
So she ran and went to Simon Peter
and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them,
"They have taken the Lord from the tomb,
and we don't know where they put him."
Mary 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 Magdalene went and announced to the disciples,
"I have seen the Lord,"
and then reported what he told her.
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