{"id":3308,"date":"2015-07-22T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/la-madre-on-saint-mary-magdale\/"},"modified":"2019-07-22T21:22:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T20:22:37","slug":"la-madre-on-saint-mary-magdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2015\/07\/la-madre-on-saint-mary-magdale\/","title":{"rendered":"La Madre on Saint Mary Magdalene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/MagdaleneCrucifixion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/MagdaleneCrucifixion-thumb-200x284.jpg\" alt=\"MagdaleneCrucifixion.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/span>This may be something that happens somewhere between late middle and old age but, increasingly, I find myself recalling things read when I was in my teens. Thinking about Saint Mary Magdalene today, I remembered how much this passage impressed me when I came upon it in William T. Walsh&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Saint-Teresa-Avila-William-Thomas\/dp\/0895553252\">Life of Saint Teresa of Avila<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I had a very great devotion to the glorious Magdalene, and very frequently used to think of her conversion&#8211;especially when I went to Communion. As I knew for certain that our Lord was then within me, I used to place myself at His feet, thinking that my tears would not be despised. I did not know what I was saying; only He did great things for me, in that He was pleased I should shed those tears, seeing that I so soon forgot that impression. I used to recommend myself to that glorious Saint, that she might obtain my pardon. (<em>Autobiography of Saint Teresa of Jesus<\/em>, Chapter IX)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My friend from long ago, the incomparable Dom Bernardo Bonowitz, may not remember this, but back in the 1960s we both delighted in this passage. In some way it kindled a fire in our hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be something that happens somewhere between late middle and old age but, increasingly, I find myself recalling things read when I was in my teens. Thinking about Saint Mary Magdalene today, I remembered how much this passage impressed me when I came upon it in William T. Walsh&#8217;s Life of Saint Teresa of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-saints"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-Rm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3308"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21265,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions\/21265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}