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00:00On the first day after the Sabbath, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb
00:15and saw the stone that sealed it removed.
00:18Running off, he arrived at the house where Simon Peter and the other disciple were, whom
00:24Jesus loved and told them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb and we do not know where he has been."
00:31they will have put.
00:33Peter and the other disciple set out for the tomb.
00:37The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and
00:43He arrived first at the tomb and, bending down, looked at the linen cloths lying on the ground, but he did not go in.
00:50At that moment Simon Peter, who had been following him, also arrived and went into the tomb.
00:56He gazed at the cloths laid on the ground and the shroud that had been over his head.
01:01Jesus, not laid out with the linen cloths on the ground, but folded up in a separate place.
01:08Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in.
01:14And he saw and believed, for until then they had not understood the scriptures according to which
01:21Jesus had to rise from the dead.
01:24The liturgy presents us with three encounters with people in the coming Sundays, including this one.
01:47who have a message for us.
01:51We have finished the time of Lent, a time in which we have been preparing ourselves.
01:57to start a new life.
02:00This new life is born with the encounter with Christ, with that encounter, as the Pope said,
02:06an encounter with open eyes and a beating heart, an encounter that changes everything
02:11completely changes our life and throws us into a different life, which is the life of man.
02:18new.
02:19This new man, about whom Saint Paul will continually speak in his letters, and who
02:24It refers precisely to us, the men reborn of water and spirit.
02:31These men reborn of water and spirit must have a transformative encounter with
02:37the Lord.
02:37And that's why, for the next three Sundays, the next two Sundays, we're going to find
02:44three different characters and we're going to try to discover in those characters part of ourselves
02:52life and the message that God wants especially for this Easter.
02:57Today we are going to meet a woman, her name is Mary Magdalene.
03:04Mary Magdalene is a very important character, a character of great relevance; she appears in
03:15in all three crucifixions, in all three crucifixions, in all the crucifixions, it appears,
03:23Mary Magdalene appears in all the crucifixions, both in the Synoptic Gospels and in the Gospels.
03:30From Saint John. Why? Why that woman? Along with all the others. But always Mary
03:41Magdalena was in the small group of women who were witnessing the crucifixion of the Lord.
03:50There is much speculation about this. Mary Magdalene has been a mysterious figure who
03:59He had a very special relationship with the Lord, as can be discovered by some of
04:05The steps, some of the passages that we are going to review today.
04:10Who is Mary Magdalene?
04:14She is mentioned twelve times in Holy Scripture by her name, Mary Magdalene.
04:22In some passages she is not referred to as Mary Magdalene, but as we will see today,
04:30We can easily identify her. It also refers to Mary Magdalene.
04:37And that is why I would like to begin our reflection today with the passage we have heard in the
04:43Gospel, where it tells us that on this occasion, in Saint John, some women do not go,
04:50but only Mary Magdalene.
04:54In all the other synoptic texts, it is again a group of women whom we assume to be
04:58The same women from the crucifixion. That little group we're about to see in Luke,
05:04who continually accompanied Jesus, also appears in the Resurrection.
05:10Not in Juan.
05:12In John, Mary Magdalene has a very important role.
05:16Remember that it is a Gospel written at the end of the first century, where we find much
05:23In theology, we find events that Jesus experienced, but which St. John has taken to fill in the gaps.
05:31of theology, to fill them with meaning, and to complete the message that God wants
05:36to give to his people through his word.
05:39So, in John we will always encounter mystery, a mystery that we never fully grasp.
05:46completely open to clarification. It always opens up more, and opens up more, and opens up more, and in
05:52The more we study Juan, the more he opens up.
05:56There is a man named Hugo Vanni. You want to find some books by Hugo Vanni.
06:02He says the following: I had the opportunity to meet him when I studied in Rome, as
06:09I've always been very interested in the Bible, and particularly in the Gospel of John; I learned that
06:14He was going to give a lecture at the university, and so I went to listen to him.
06:19And he begins his lecture by saying the following.
06:22Ever since I was little, I've been incredibly enthusiastic about Sacred Scripture, so much so that I said,
06:32I am going to become a priest to study the Bible.
06:36He enters as a priest to study the Bible, that's what he wanted.
06:40He says, when I arrived at the seminary I saw that it was so fascinating, but that it was so big
06:45that I had to study, that when I finished the seminar I said, I can't study it all.
06:51So I'm only going to study in San Juan.
06:55So he earned a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, what for us would be a master's degree,
07:02He based it solely on the Gospel of John, and spent another three years on it.
07:08only by studying Saint John.
07:12But when he studied Saint John, who is Saint John, his three letters and the Apocalypse,
07:18She realized there was so much to study, so she decided to
07:25to do his doctorate solely on the Apocalypse.
07:29Hugo Bani is a specialist in the Apocalypse.
07:33I realized, he says, that Saint John was so profound, that the most I could manage to study
07:37In my entire life, it would be, if anything, the Apocalypse.
07:41So he only studied Revelation.
07:44These words of Hugo Bani reveal to us that we are talking about a Gospel that has
07:50a huge mystery and obviously this mystery, when misinterpreted, has given rise to
07:57to films like the ones we've seen and so many other books, right?
08:03Movies that don't reveal reality, where we're presented with the idea that I'm in a relationship, well
08:10which is not properly the one that the Church, therefore, recognizes.
08:14However, today we are going to listen to a text that gives us a glimpse of very particular elements
08:23What interests me most today about this woman is that we look at a particular fact,
08:30which is why these encounters occur and why this situation is what Saint John tells us about.
08:39I would like, therefore, that we turn to today's text, from chapter 20, which speaks to us of the resurrection.
08:47In Saint John, the first verse reveals the identity of the woman, it says, on the first day
08:56Early in the morning of the week, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb, while it was still dark.
09:01and saw that the stone that covered the entrance had been removed.
09:04So, the first piece of information we have to know who he is is the historical fact, the historical fact
09:11The information from Saint John is that it is Mary Magdalene.
09:17I'm going to skip to chapter eleven, removing everything we read today, which is when she goes to look for the disciples.
09:23The disciples are running and all this has to do with the testimony, but I'm going to
09:28I'll omit it because we've already read it and it's not what I want to reflect on today.
09:32I'll skip to eleven, and here we're going to find an incredible scene.
09:41It's the scene of someone who has waited a long time, someone who has completely lost
09:48the hope of seeing a very, very loved person again, and at that moment they are reunited
09:56with that person.
10:00It says the following: Mary stood outside the tomb weeping, and weeping like
10:05She bent down to look inside and saw two angels dressed in white, sitting where
10:11Jesus' body had been there, one at the head and the other at the feet.
10:15The angels asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?"
10:19She told them, "Why have they taken my Lord away, and I don't know where they have put him?"
10:24No sooner had she said this than she turned around and saw Jesus there, but she didn't know who it was.
10:31Jesus asked her, "Woman, why are you crying for the one you are seeking?"
10:37Thinking he was the one who looked after the garden, she said to him, "Sir, if you have taken it away..."
10:44Tell me where you put it so I can go and get it.
10:47Jesus then said to her, Mary, and she turned and said to him in Hebrew, Rabbi, which means
10:56teacher.
10:58Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go and
11:04I told my brothers that I am going to meet him, who is my Father and also your Father,
11:11my God and your God.
11:13Then Mary Magdalene went and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and
11:18She also told them what he had said to her.
11:22Some important elements.
11:25I'm going to tell you so you can learn more about my story, and so that when I die you'll know
11:30Get everyone together and make my biography.
11:32I think they already have enough elements.
11:41When I was younger, when I was still younger than before I entered the seminary, remember
11:46I entered the seminary when I was 30, don't do the math.
11:49And then, well, I was about to get married.
11:57I had a relationship with a girl and I was about to get married.
12:00I think most people already know this.
12:05And well, nothing was done.
12:08I enter the seminary, many years pass, all my years in the seminary pass.
12:12I arrive at my first destination and after celebrating mass in the morning,
12:18He used to celebrate mass at 9 in the morning at the Carmen parish.
12:22And as I have always done, we celebrated in the little chapel, for those who know the parish
12:26Down below is a chapel in Carmen that has some crypts.
12:30And well, there in that chapel I would celebrate at 9 in the morning because it was early
12:35people.
12:36And then, well, I was celebrating, as always, I went out and said goodbye to everyone.
12:41And as soon as I left, I noticed a girl standing, well, next to a door.
12:47And then, as often happened to me, people who, well, end up...
12:55Mass and there's always someone who wants to ask something, make an appointment or something, right?
13:00And well, she waited until I had said goodbye to all the people who were there and then
13:05Then he comes closer to me, and then, or I come closer, I don't remember exactly, and then
13:11I say to him, "What can I get you?"
13:16And she opens these huge eyes and says to me, "Don't you recognize me?"
13:22And exactly what happens in the Gospel, at home they called her "chiquilo" (little boy).
13:28And then I say to him, kid.
13:32In other words, it's something you don't expect.
13:36In other words, you've lost all hope of ever seeing her again.
13:38Many years have passed in this case, haven't they?
13:41It's not that many years have passed here, it's that he died.
13:45In other words, Jesus died.
13:47She saw him die.
13:48The last thing she could have imagined, in her mind, was that she would find him standing up
13:57and talking to him.
14:00That's why when you hear a voice, right?
14:04As happened to me when she... well, with her voice, I immediately recognized her voice.
14:08And then, as if a veil had been lifted from my eyes, I recognized her.
14:16The same thing happens here.
14:18There is a tremendous surprise in this woman.
14:22But this is not the most beautiful, the most important thing.
14:26There is a piece of information that lets us see what happens immediately afterwards.
14:30He says, don't hold me back.
14:32What happened at that moment?
14:35Well, he probably pounced on her, right?
14:39He hugged him.
14:43The fundamental element that we are going to see today, in all this reflection that I am going to do with you,
14:48a biblical-theological reflection that we will be doing,
14:53where we're going to try to reconstruct some ideas, right?
14:56Certainly, no gospel is completely historical.
14:59Remember that it primarily gathers testimonies from the communities,
15:03because nobody wrote when Jesus was doing things.
15:06So, Saint Luke tells us that, for example, he went and searched and wrote all this down, right?
15:12So, we collect many testimonies.
15:16But above all, what we gather is the inspiration of the Spirit to give us a message.
15:21Never forget this, because if we make this history, then we will take away its strength and value.
15:28So, the first element is that we have here a woman in love.
15:34To a woman in love.
15:38This woman in love always appears at the top of all the lists of women.
15:45She always appears at the top of all the lists of women.
15:49I want us to look at, to begin to tie up some loose ends about this woman,
15:55To think about, why does he come to love his teacher in this way?
16:00Why does she end up having a truly loving relationship?
16:07For this, we must first go there, which is where an important part is revealed to us.
16:13Let us now turn to the Gospel of Saint Luke.
16:15Let's go to the Gospel of Saint Luke, chapter 7.
16:19In chapter 8, forgive me, it's chapter 8.
16:32I'm going to read from verse 1, although the important one is verse 2.
16:36It says, after this, Jesus traveled through many towns and villages,
16:41announcing the good news of the kingdom of God.
16:44The twelve apostles accompanied him,
16:46as well as some women whom he had cured of evil spirits and diseases.
16:52Among them was Mary, the one called Magdalene.
16:57Whenever lists in Holy Scripture are headed by a character,
17:03This is because this character has special relevance.
17:07If we look at the lists of the apostles, does he always head the list?
17:12Who?
17:13Pedro always tops the lists.
17:16Because?
17:17Because it's the important one.
17:19In the lists of the patriarchs, the first one at the top is
17:23Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
17:26TRUE?
17:26From there, then, all the people will come.
17:29So, lists are important.
17:32They reveal what the community knows about this woman.
17:35But what does he know?
17:37Look at what he knows about this woman in San Lucas.
17:41Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had come out.
17:48In other words, she was a possessed woman, Mary Magdalene.
17:53Where did he find her?
17:55We don't know where she found it.
17:58He says he had been traveling through many towns.
18:02Probably one of those towns was Magdala, which was a small town in the region of Judea.
18:08There he probably found this woman, from whom he expelled seven demons.
18:17In my experience with exorcism, one of the most beautiful experiences I have left
18:22after a job that is truly exhausting and, well, quite terrible,
18:28which is the job of an exorcist.
18:31But one of the experiences that greatly makes everything we go through worthwhile
18:36This is what happens after liberation.
18:40First, the person, having suffered terribly,
18:44She becomes completely healthy, she is cured.
18:48But above all, an impressive love for God is born.
18:54People would think, right? How could God allow all this?
18:58And maybe we would think, well, I would be left with resentment, right?
19:02Well, not that God loves me, God who loves me so much.
19:05How could he allow a demon to come and bother me, right?
19:09And yet, the opposite is true.
19:14There remains a gratitude, but a terrible, tremendous one, to God our Lord.
19:20They truly become great worshippers.
19:24They become people who are truly now an instrument of His grace.
19:29to make their love known, because they know that it was love that rescued them,
19:36because most of those who have this terrible experience
19:39It is not due to a purifying effect of God, but because his life has not been the best.
19:46And then they say, how can I, being a sinner?
19:50That's something that happens in the soul.
19:52How could I, being such a sinner, having been in all this misery,
19:56Has God rescued me?
20:00This is Magdalena.
20:02Where did he meet her?
20:03We don't know.
20:05But we know that she had an encounter that completely transformed her life.
20:10This transformation is so great that it will appear,
20:17Although in a veiled way, we don't know again,
20:20Such concrete information about her never appears again.
20:22But we can find some elements that can help us understand more about this.
20:30Another element we have is the woman from the perfume ad.
20:36Do you remember our spiritual exercises?
20:39Let's go right there to Luke 7.
20:48In Luke 7, starting from verse 36,
20:53During our spiritual exercises, we analyzed the presence of a woman
20:58absolutely crazy,
21:01madly in love with the Lord,
21:03who is capable of enduring all kinds of ridicule,
21:06all the insults,
21:07all the grievances on the part of the dinner guests at the house of Simon the Pharisee,
21:12just to get to Jesus' feet.
21:16Who is this woman?
21:20The evangelist Luke does not mention it.
21:21However, he does a lot of crazy things.
21:27It says in verse 38,
21:28Weeping, she stood at Jesus' feet and began to bathe him with tears.
21:34Then she dried them with her hair, kissed them, and poured perfume over them.
21:40Some of the conjectures are that this woman would be the one who appears in John in chapter 8.
21:48They remember this woman who was about to be stoned and whom Jesus saved.
21:53The same experience of saving through the liberation of spirits.
21:58She is a woman who is so grateful that she doesn't care if Jews speak ill of her.
22:07It has to go through, you'll remember that we analyzed this passage.
22:10Sometimes it's important to reconstruct the stories a little, isn't it?
22:13At least the places.
22:15It has to go through the courtyard and get to where the diners' table is.
22:20And so they are gathered together, the very cream of the Pharisees.
22:26They didn't hang out together, not even a thousand meters away from a prostitute, right?
22:31In other words, it was terrible.
22:33This woman is a prostitute.
22:35For Simon the Pharisee says,
22:37If I knew who was touching him, I would know it was a woman of ill repute.
22:42He is referring to a prostitute.
22:47Is this prostitute Mary Magdalene?
22:49Many want to connect this passage.
22:54We don't know.
22:55It has, we'll see in a moment, a very strong connection to another element
22:59which has to do with the Gospel of Matthew.
23:03In the Gospel of Matthew, we will see in Matthew 26.
23:12We're going to see that it's within the context of the last week of Jesus' life.
23:19Let's see if I don't...
23:20I was going to tell you what we used to say when we were little.
23:24Let's see if I don't get them tangled up.
23:27Let's see if I don't get them a bit tangled up.
23:29So I'm dealing with grown people here.
23:32No way.
23:32I have been preaching to you for many years now.
23:35So I hope that they are already getting a better grasp of Scripture.
23:38In order to make all these connections and to be able to extract more from Scripture.
23:44So, now they really need to take note and maybe they're going to have to give this issue a good once-over and a thorough review.
23:51In chapter 26, verses 6 to 13, we find this woman who is going to pour out perfume.
24:02Jesus was in Bethany.
24:05Bethany is the city where who lives?
24:08Lazarus, right?
24:09Very good.
24:10So, take note of these elements.
24:13And she was at Simon's house, where this woman appears in a similar situation.
24:21Lucas, right?
24:22It turns out that in Luke, the Pharisee who invited Jesus to dinner is named Simon.
24:30Because he's going to say, "Simon, I have something to tell you."
24:35However, in Luke it appears in chapter 7, at the beginning of the preaching.
24:39John, while in Matthew and John he appears in the last week of preaching.
24:46See?
24:46So, here the evangelists skip ahead, they don't have much of a problem with time.
24:53Because what's important is not the time in which it happens, but the message they want to convey.
25:03Okay?
25:03They're making all these connections.
25:06Are they following me?
25:06Don't get lost on me, because if any of you get lost, then who knows what will happen to me.
25:11Because right now I'm going to read you a text that will shake you to your core.
25:15Very good.
25:17So far so good.
25:19Good.
25:21Then it says, Jesus was in Bethany at Simon's house.
25:24Two important elements.
25:25Bethany, house of Lazarus, city of the house of Lazarus.
25:29And Simon, who had invited her to dinner, and this woman, well, there she is, saying that she was a sinner.
25:36He says, at this point a woman approached him.
25:42Sinner?
25:42No, here she is no longer a sinner.
25:44In the Gospel of Matthew, this woman is not a sinner.
25:47With an alabaster jar full of very expensive perfume, while Jesus was at the table, she poured the perfume on his head.
25:56When the disciples saw this, they were angry and began to say, "Why is this being wasted?"
26:02It could have been sold for a lot of money to help the poor.
26:05Jesus heard it and said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman?"
26:10He has done a good deed for me, for you will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.
26:18What this woman has done is pour perfume on my body, to prepare me for my burial.
26:24I assure you that wherever in the world this good news is announced, people will also talk about what this woman did, and that is how she will be remembered.
26:33This woman will always be talked about, but which woman?
26:43And the one everyone is always talking about is called Mary Magdalene.
26:48Okay?
26:50Okay, now I want us to connect with Bethany.
26:55Yeah?
26:55Now we go, now we go with Juan.
26:59Let's go to the resurrection of Lazarus, chapter 11.
27:11This is a mess.
27:13Getting involved in this always ends up being a mess, but I hope that some important conclusions can be drawn from this mess.
27:21That is what I want for you during this reflection.
27:23And like an Easter path, like something that is showing us where to go on our Easter journey.
27:33Because just as we had a program during Lent, we must also have a program for Easter.
27:39Our program here will be different.
27:41Very good.
27:42So, we are now with the Gospel of Saint John.
27:48And we're in chapter 11 and we're going to look at verse 2 to identify something interesting.
28:02Sorry, I made a mistake, I was on Lucas.
28:06Sorry, I made a mistake, I was on Lucas.
28:37This Mary was the sister of Lazarus.
28:42This Mary was the sister of Lazarus.
28:45She was the one who poured perfume on the Lord's feet and dried them with her hair.
28:49Where did we hear this?
28:53No?
28:55Where did we hear this?
28:57Let's see.
28:59In Luke.
29:02And what was that woman?
29:03A sinner?
29:09Of course!
29:12It's the same.
29:14It is said that this woman was the one who had poured perfume on the Master's feet and dried them with her hair.
29:24Let's see, so you can't tell me no.
29:27Pay attention!
29:28Chapter 7.
29:31Crying, she stood by his feet, he says,
29:37When a woman of ill repute,
29:40Okay?
29:41A prostitute,
29:42who lived in the same town and knew that Jesus had gone to eat at the Pharisee's house,
29:47She arrived with an alabaster jar full of perfume.
29:50That's what it says, right?
29:53Saint John.
29:54Let's see what Saint John says.
29:55Saint John says in the chapter...
29:59This woman, who was Lazarus's sister, says
30:09She was the one who poured perfume on the Lord's feet and dried them with her hair.
30:14Weeping, she stood by Jesus' feet and began to bathe them with tears.
30:19Then she dried them with her hair, kissed them, and poured perfume on them.
30:24Oh, Carlitos!
30:28It turns out...
30:29It would seem so, wouldn't it?
30:32It turns out that the woman from whom seven demons came,
30:39the woman who is looking for the teacher
30:45and that she cares about anything as long as she's with him,
30:50Her name is Mary Magdalene.
30:55And it turns out, as it appears here,
30:58We're just making guesses, what could it be? Well, we don't know.
31:01But I want to get there, so you can see where I'm headed with all this,
31:07It turns out she is Lazarus's sister.
31:17Let's go back to Lucas.
31:21Chapter 7.
31:25Verse 41.
31:28Luke 7, it's the same.
31:30We are currently playing between Lucas 7 and Juan 11.
31:34Okay?
31:36Returning to Luke 7:41.
31:40Jesus and I, two men, owed money to a moneylender.
31:44One owed him 500 denarii and the other 50.
31:48And since the lender couldn't pay him, he forgave both of their debts.
31:52Now tell me, which one of them will love him more?
31:56Simon answered him,
31:58I think he was the man she forgave the most.
32:01Jesus said to him,
32:03You're right, you judged correctly.
32:05Then, looking at the woman,
32:07Jesus said to Simon,
32:09Do you see this woman?
32:11I entered your house and you didn't give me water for my feet.
32:14Instead, this woman has bathed my feet with her tears
32:18and she dried them with her hair.
32:21You didn't greet me with a kiss,
32:23But after I came in,
32:25He hasn't stopped kissing my feet.
32:28You didn't put a candle on my head,
32:30But she has poured perfume on my feet.
32:33That's why I'm telling you,
32:34that their many sins are forgiven,
32:37because he loved so much.
32:39Because?
32:41He loved a lot.
32:42But the person who is rarely forgiven,
32:47He shows little love.
32:52Because he loved a lot.
32:55We are seeing a woman in love.
32:59To a woman to whom Jesus did an incredible thing
33:04and stole her heart,
33:06we said in our exercises.
33:08He completely stole her heart.
33:12She fell madly in love with Jesus.
33:19In the Gospel of Luke,
33:22Jesus narrates
33:23the parable of the prodigal son.
33:27Remember?
33:29This boy who,
33:30having everything in his house,
33:33He's leaving.
33:34then he messes everything up,
33:35He begins to suffer great hardship,
33:38great need,
33:40and finally,
33:42enters into consciousness
33:44and returns to his father's house.
33:47I wonder,
33:49Could it be that Maria,
33:51the sister of Lazarus and Martha,
33:53having everything in his house,
33:55well,
33:57as can happen in so many homes,
34:01where bad company,
34:04perhaps difficult economic situations,
34:07complicated family situations,
34:11Were they leading her down the path of perdition?
34:14Could it be that this woman,
34:18She is the woman Jesus meets
34:20in a village in Magdala,
34:23turned into a prostitute,
34:26full of demons,
34:28and Jesus,
34:30when he sees her,
34:31he meets her,
34:33and steals her heart.
34:36He exorcises his demons,
34:38and forgives her.
34:44This woman would be the woman who later,
34:47in a gesture of madness,
34:49of love,
34:49when he finds out,
34:51Because you know that Jesus used to do that,
34:54He was getting better and everything,
34:55but then it would disappear,
34:57And now the woman finds out
34:59that he who freed her,
35:03because he is already in Bethany,
35:04He is now in Bethany,
35:08that woman who is in Bethany,
35:11and which appears to be the same as Lazarus's,
35:16Well, this woman now,
35:17He is at the house of Simon the Pharisee,
35:19and like a crazy wild woman,
35:22leaves his house,
35:23to find the one who had saved her,
35:27that she had recovered it,
35:28who had stolen his heart,
35:30and her heart beat only for him.
35:34Where will I find him again?
35:35How will I find him again?
35:38And well,
35:39Well, there you'll find it.
35:41and then he takes him home,
35:42and presents it,
35:44with his family.
35:46This is the man I told you about.
35:49It becomes,
35:50as Scripture will present it,
35:53as a witness to God's love.
35:55It is an encounter with sinful man,
36:01that steals his heart,
36:02and makes him a witness,
36:04and a tremendous lover.
36:07I imagine,
36:08in this reconstruction,
36:10perhaps arbitrary and foolish,
36:11but it's not suitable for meditation,
36:14I imagine,
36:16When she returns from her experience with Jesus,
36:18when Jesus,
36:19He does this work for her,
36:21and returns home,
36:23Because when God does this,
36:24People are left somewhat bewildered.
36:26Do you remember the blind man,
36:27who doesn't know who healed him?
36:29Do you remember the other one,
36:31the paralytic,
36:32in the pool of Bethesda,
36:33who also doesn't know who healed him?
36:36Well,
36:37That's probably how it could have happened.
36:40And this woman,
36:41because he doesn't know,
36:43more than Jesus,
36:44But where did he go?
36:44Did he travel to every town?
36:46Well,
36:46He went that way,
36:47TRUE?
36:48And then,
36:50when Jesus goes,
36:51on their way to Jerusalem,
36:53because we have to get through,
36:54necessarily through Bethany,
36:56Well then,
36:58there,
36:58He goes to Simon's house,
37:01finds out,
37:02That's what it says,
37:03TRUE?
37:03He found out that Jesus was there,
37:05And then she runs out like a madwoman,
37:07He finds it,
37:08He anoints him,
37:09He washes it,
37:10the feet,
37:11as John eleven says,
37:12and introduces him to his family,
37:15and from there,
37:16She begins a new relationship with him,
37:19to the point,
37:20that on many of his trips,
37:22He was with him,
37:24as we read it,
37:25in the Gospel of Matthew,
37:27Lucas,
37:27in chapter 8.
37:29Okay?
37:30See how it synchronizes,
37:32all this,
37:33This topic.
37:34But what is at the base?
37:36A transformative encounter with Christ,
37:40a decisive encounter with Him,
37:42that completely steals his heart,
37:44and he falls in love with her.
37:46And we can see that,
37:47that there are two anointings,
37:49If you go to chapter 12,
37:51in the same Gospel,
37:53under the same theology,
37:55Yes, that's right.
37:56hardly, Juan,
37:57would have retreated,
37:59to a previous event.
38:01In chapter 12,
38:04says,
38:04six days before Easter,
38:06If you look closely,
38:07They are completely related here,
38:09with the Gospel of Matthew,
38:11It would be the same woman.
38:14They had dinner there,
38:16in honor of Jesus,
38:17Martha served Lazarus,
38:19with one of those at the table,
38:21Maria brought about 300 grams,
38:23of pure tuberose perfume,
38:26very expensive,
38:28and anointed Jesus' feet,
38:31then he dried them,
38:32with her hair,
38:33and the whole house,
38:34It was filled with aroma,
38:36of the perfume,
38:36It's the same gesture again,
38:38than the previous one,
38:40but on a certain date,
38:41different,
38:42This is happening,
38:44six days before Easter,
38:45Then everything seems to indicate,
38:47which in reality,
38:48There were two anointings,
38:49by the same woman,
38:51in San Juan,
38:52It's the same woman,
38:54the one who performs,
38:55these two anointings,
38:58Why didn't it sell?
38:59this perfume,
39:00for the equivalent,
39:01of 300 days' salary,
39:03to help the poor,
39:04Imagine,
39:05a salary,
39:05which are not miserable wages,
39:08that we have here in Mexico,
39:09TRUE?
39:10but,
39:10a salary,
39:11more or less,
39:12so that people can live,
39:13It must be between 10 and 12 thousand pesos.
39:16set some days,
39:16to do quick calculations,
39:18a perfume worth 120,000 pesos,
39:22a perfume worth 120,000 pesos,
39:28What does it tell us?
39:30for the lover,
39:32Anything is not enough,
39:33Isn't that right, husbands?
39:35handcuffs?
39:38At least that's how it should be,
39:39I don't know if it's with you,
39:42But that's how it had to be.
39:44120,000 pesos,
39:48give him a car,
39:50well yes,
39:54It would be something like,
39:55the equivalent,
39:56You only use the car,
39:57and the perfume,
39:59That's when he crashed it.
40:01And that's it.
40:04that is to say,
40:05no matter what you give to your loved one,
40:09provided that,
40:10Give him everything,
40:13no matter what you give to your loved one,
40:17provided that,
40:18Give it to him,
40:20all,
40:25Let's go back,
40:26to the resurrection,
40:27Maria was outside,
40:36next to the tomb,
40:37crying,
40:42verse 17,
40:44Don't hold me back,
40:45because I haven't gone yet,
40:46to meet my father,
40:47I'm going to read to you,
40:52an Easter hymn, brothers,
40:54a church hymn,
40:57We're going to read it.
41:08in the liturgy of the hours,
41:09during Eastertide,
41:11It says,
41:12It was dawn, Mary,
41:16calling to him with her tears,
41:20The glory of the Father came,
41:21And the first day dawned,
41:23wrapped in the tunic,
41:24in a white tunic,
41:25of his own divine light,
41:27the sheet of death,
41:29left in an empty grave,
41:31Jesus, having been lifted up, reigned.
41:32But she,
41:34I didn't see it,
41:36It was dawn, Mary,
41:38the faithful wife who waits,
41:40The spirit moves the aura,
41:43in the garden of life,
41:45Let the flowers smell of Easter,
41:47of the unblemished meat,
41:49and let the wife remain still,
41:51without questions or fatigue,
41:53The husband is already in front,
41:55come from the hill,
41:57It was dawn, Mary,
41:59because she was the one in love,
42:04Was it his wife?
42:07Definitely not.
42:08Because a piece of information like this,
42:11there would have been no left,
42:12outside of writing,
42:14What does this hymn tell us, brothers?
42:16And what is the message?
42:18that I wanted to prepare for you,
42:21the encounter with Christ,
42:23It has to steal our hearts,
42:26He has to take us,
42:27to do crazy things,
42:29What was this woman doing?
42:32crazy love,
42:33like those of a wife,
42:35It's crazy to give him everything,
42:40madness of committing outrages,
42:44crazy things of any kind,
42:47It's a mad love,
42:50As we were saying on Friday,
42:52Only he who loves madly,
42:54He is capable of doing things like this,
42:58our journey at Easter,
42:59It has to be a crazy path,
43:01but of love,
43:04How much do you love the Lord?
43:08in the gospel,
43:10of San Juan,
43:13in chapter 21,
43:14in verse 15,
43:16and the following,
43:16Jesus asks Peter,
43:19Do you love me more than these?
43:21Do you love him more than everyone you live with?
43:29Could you tell your wife,
43:31Do I love Jesus more than you?
43:33Or could you, as a son, tell your dad,
43:35Do I love Jesus more than you?
43:38Would I be willing to do crazy things?
43:41How do I get to the seminar?
43:44How do I go on a mission?
43:46How did we recently say goodbye,
43:48This girl, right?
43:51who went to Africa,
43:52leaving everything behind,
43:53a career,
43:54a boyfriend,
43:55friends,
43:56school,
43:57to go and serve,
43:59to the poor in Africa?
44:01Those are crazy things to say about Jesus.
44:04How much do you love?
44:09Maria loved him with all her heart,
44:13It is the meeting,
44:15Jesus who comes out,
44:16for you, sinner,
44:19Maybe you're not a prostitute.
44:23or a woman,
44:25or a man of ill repute,
44:27But you're just like all of us,
44:31a sinner,
44:33And Jesus came for you,
44:35And as for me,
44:37to find himself resurrected,
44:39and tell you,
44:41I love you,
44:43more than anything else in the world,
44:45Easter time,
44:47siblings,
44:48time for this meeting,
44:50lead us to do things,
44:51loving,
44:53and unique because of the resurrected Jesus,
44:55plan your Easter,
44:57to do things,
44:58that would please him,
45:00the husband,
45:01and the wife,
45:02They try to please each other,
45:03continuously,
45:04I've told them that this is it,
45:05the success of a good marriage,
45:07the one the husband,
45:08and the wife,
45:09continuously,
45:09They seek to make themselves happy,
45:11to please,
45:12the soup she likes,
45:14the perfume she likes,
45:16the place,
45:17to the one who likes to go,
45:18in the end,
45:19That's what it does,
45:21the lovers,
45:23Make a program,
45:24This Easter,
45:25to do things,
45:26that please Jesus,
45:28and show him in this way,
45:30that you too,
45:31You respond to his love,
45:32Praise be to Jesus Christ,
45:34and show him in this way,