GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
Mary and Mary Magdalen loved with such a perfect love that they shed their fear. Certainly they grieved and experienced their hope flagging during the dark moments surrounding Jesus’ death. But they never lost their faith. It remained a small, steady flame that was fanned to brilliant, bold new life in the light of that Easter dawn. They challenge us to love and believe.
Joyce Hollyday, “An Invitation” in Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter, p. 384, Plough Publishing House, 2003…