22 July 2025 - Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene
2 Cor 5, 14-17 : Jn 20, 1.11-18
Homily
Mary Magdalene is without doubt the woman mentioned in the Gospels about whom we know the most (although it is not always absolutely clear which "Mary" the Evangelists are talking about). When she washed Jesus' feet and sprinkled them with perfume, Jesus said that wherever the Gospel would be taught people would tell what she had done "in memory of her". However, what St John has remembered most about Mary Magdalene, and which is the subject of the Gospel text we have just read, is that she was the first witness to the Resurrection of Jesus.