Pope Francis emphasized Mary Magdalene’s transformative encounter with the risen Christ as a model for personal conversion.

Her research focuses on textual criticism, Mary Magdalene, and the Gospel of John ... She goes alone to the empty tomb on Easter morning, where Jesus appears to her first. She gets the first ...

and if they can't find them, (they) make them." Mary Magdalene strikes me as a woman who is able to make circumstances. The way to the empty tomb, from there to the encounter with the gardener, and ...

The empty tomb In the reading from John’s Gospel for this Easter Sunday we are told that Mary Magdalene “came to the tomb early, while it was still dark…” (Jn. 20:1). We know from Luke’s ...

In the Gospel of John, Mary Magdalene is the first person to see Jesus after the resurrection. Jesus appeared to Mary after she returned alone to the empty tomb and instructed her to tell the ...

In his second Jubilee Audience on hope Pope Francis invites us to embrace conversion as a lifelong journey, highligting the ...

Credit: Vatican Media A biblical model of transformation Drawing from the Gospel of John’s account of Mary Magdalene at the empty tomb, Francis emphasized how she “turned around” multiple ...