Negative experiences usually cause discouragements, but little people know that it's the most extraordinary time where a Christian experience will come to a new level. The pessimistic vision may only reveal the bitter part of the story of these mournful moments. He who knows the experience of Mary Magdalene in the gospel of John (20:1-2.11-18) can be opened up to an another attitude regarding the doleful circumstance. Mary on the death of Jesus was totally lost and disoriented.
For Mary Magdalene, the Master was everything, her Lord and Saviour - Ieshua : in aramaic: God saves. So for her going to the tomb was the only way to feel the memory of the Lord. But the worst of what she had not expected was the "empty-tomb". She could have had accepted the tomb with the enclothe dead-corpse rather than finding the clothe-folded in one side with no cadavere.
Many times we too behave like Mary Magdalene, we love to keep the most sad moment as a memory of our defeat. We love to repeat it a million times and we somehow dwell to these memories.
So Jesus called Mary, His voice awakened her from desperate state. the "voice" of Jesus that was so familiar to her because many times she had "contemplated" His teachings. Mary! - Rabbouni! or Teacher!
Knowing Jesus as a teacher is very important during the darkest moment. Being the Teacher and being the Light are two important characteristics of the Lord. Being a Teacher He always have taught of Eternal Life and being the Light, He dispels the darkness. Therefore, the sepulcher could no longer be the dwelling but the rendezvous with the Resurrected, the Beloved and the Master.
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