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1. borrowing misery from future

2. carrying grief of the past

So the story goes XI, 2025.

She’s the first one to wash someone’s feet.

Not Christ.

Not the twelve.

Her.

She approaches with perfume, kneels down, takes the savior’s feet. Tenderly washes them, perfumes them, dries them with her hair.

St Matthew tells us that she was preparing him for his death, anointing his body with oils fitting a corpse. He also tells us that she anointed his head with the oil as well. Mimicking our chrism during confirmation.

She anoints Jesus and washes his feet before he does the same for the disciples.

Apostle to the apostles, the first to see the resurrected Christ and spread the good news, St Mary Magdalene took the posture of Christ and specifically took the posture of his role as priest. And when others criticized her, Jesus told them that her actions deserved praise, not condemnation.

I don’t have a profound statement here. Just something to meditate on. It’s what stuck out to me during morning mass today.