{"id":19101,"date":"2020-07-22T09:09:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19101"},"modified":"2020-07-22T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T14:01:18","slug":"faithful-to-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19101","title":{"rendered":"Faithful to the End"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Faithful\nto the End<\/strong><br>\nWednesday, \u202fJuly 22, 2020<br>\n<em>Feast Day of Mary Magdalene<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C_90_NAbv3k\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>Diarmuid\n\u00d3 Murch\u00fa is an Irish poet, author, friend, and member of the Sacred Heart\nCommunity. This poem highlights the presence of Mary Magdalene and the women at\nJesus\u2019 death and resurrection and invites us to question why we have not\nhonored their role more fully. Poetry is so much better heard than simply read,\nso for full effect, read these words aloud, perhaps several times.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\nhappened [to] the women on the first Easter Day<br>\nBreaks open a daring horizon,<br>\nInviting all hearts to discern.<br>\nMid the grieving and trauma of loss,<br>\nThe horror to stand at the foot of a Cross.<br>\nA body we think was buried in haste,<br>\nAnd a tomb that was empty but restless in taste.<br>\nEmpowering a strange group of women. [stanza 2]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\nhappened to those on the first Day of Easter,<br>\nThe faithful disciples by Magdalene led?<br>\nA subverted truth the patriarchs dread.<br>\nBeyond all the theories that time has construed,<br>\nBeyond the oppression we have too long endured.<br>\nThe first ones commissioned for Easter proclaim<br>\nA woman-led mission we\u2019ve brutally maimed.<br>\nBut we can\u2019t keep subverting empowerment. [stanza 5]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Resurrection\nstill flourishes and always it will,<br>\nImbued with a truth that time will fulfil.<br>\nWhat women empowered at the dawning breakthrough<br>\nwill bear fruit in season<br>\ndespite all the treason.<br>\n\u2019Cos justice will render what deserves to endure.\n [1]\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u00d3 Murch\u00fa\nreflects:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of\nall the Gospel material related to women, none is more enigmatic and empowering\nthan the role of the women in post-Resurrection space . . . I [wrote of] the\nwomen on Calvary remaining faithful to the end. For those women, it was\nanything but an end. Even when the male disciples fled in fear, they remained\nto await a new frightening dawn that would propel them into a mission\ntranscending all other missionary endeavors recorded in Gospel lore. The early\nchurch seemed unprepared for the archetypal breakthrough and proceeded to\nconsign the women to historical invisibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Richard again: I think this is a perfect example of how we cannot see what we aren\u2019t told to look for.\u00a0For most of history, Christians glossed over the presence of the women at Jesus\u2019 death, burial, and resurrection. We weren\u2019t wrong; we were simply paying attention to what we were told to look at\u2014the men\u2014by other men (priests, theologians, and even the Gospel writers themselves). We skipped over the faithfulness of the women and focused instead on the faithlessness (and the Easter morning foot race) of the men. Mary Magdalene and the other women were the first witnesses to the resurrection because they remained present for the entire process, from death unto new life, exactly what is necessary to witness resurrections in our own lives as well.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" src=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-9.59.21-AM-500x312.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19104\" srcset=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-9.59.21-AM-500x312.png 500w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-9.59.21-AM-300x187.png 300w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-9.59.21-AM-768x479.png 768w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-9.59.21-AM.png 1804w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faithful to the End Wednesday, \u202fJuly 22, 2020 Feast Day of Mary Magdalene Diarmuid \u00d3 Murch\u00fa is an Irish poet, author, friend, and member of the Sacred Heart Community. This poem highlights the presence of Mary Magdalene and the women at Jesus\u2019 death and resurrection and invites us to question why we have not honored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19105,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19101\/revisions\/19105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}