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Saint Mary Magdalene. Ordinary Time. A clean reading layout for church, prayer, or preparation.
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Song of Songs 3:1-4b
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
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Psalm 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9
The psalm is meant to be prayed, not rushed. If the wording feels older, focus on the main movement of the prayer: trust, praise, sorrow, gratitude, or hope.
2OH God, my God, to you do I watch at break of day. For you my soul has thirsted; for you my flesh, OH how many ways!
3In a desert land, and where there is no way, and no water: so in the sanctuary have I come before you, to see your power and your glory.
4For your mercy is better than lives: you my lips shall praise.
5Thus will I bless you all my life long: and in your name I will lift up my hands.
6Let my soul be satisfied as with marrow and fatness: and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips.
8because you have been my helper. And I will rejoice under the covert of your wings:
9my soul has stuck close to you: your right hand has received me.
John 20:1-2, 11-18
The Gospel is the center of the reading set. Pay close attention to what Jesus says, what Jesus does, and what response he is asking for.
1And on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalen comes early, when it was yet dark, to the tomb; and she saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
2She ran, therefore, and comes to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and says to them: They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we know not where they have laid him.
11But Mary stood at the tomb without, weeping. Now as she was weeping, she stooped down, and looked into the tomb,
12And she saw two angels in white, sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been laid.
13They say to her: Woman, why weepest you? She says to them: Because they have taken away my Lord; and I know not where they have laid him.
14When she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing; and she knew not that it was Jesus.
15Jesus says to her: Woman, why weepest you? whom seek you? She, thinking it was the gardener, says to him: Sir, if you have taken him from here, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.
16Jesus says to her: Mary. She turning, says to him: Rabboni (which is to say, Master).
17Jesus says to her: Do not touch me, for I am not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brothers and sisters, and say to them: I ascend to my Father and to your Father, to my God and your God.
18Mary Magdalen comes, and telleth the disciples: I have seen the Lord, and these things he said to me.
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