Wednesday’s the day for the The Glorious Mystery. First Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection. Three days after the crucifixion of Jesus rose up from death. As I mediated on this Mystery, I thought of the women who were the first to discover Jesus had risen. It is written that the women went to the tomb with spices to anoint his body then discovered his body was no longer there, Mark 16:1-8. Jesus appeared to one of the women desperately cry for him. Here again Jesus shows us that he hears the cries from our heart and show up. “Woman why are you crying? Then he call her name, Mary! and when she recognize his voice Jesus said to her, ” touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my Father… your God” John 20:17. ” Touch me not” I couldn’t help but questioned in my spirit, “why woud Jesus say such a thing to this one particular woman and being the one to see him first?” Women back in those days couldn’t actual touch a man especially if he’s not their husband. Was she going to greet him with a kiss? After all scriptures delcares, ” greet one another with a holy kiss,” Romans 16:16. Maybe in those days a kiss was like shaking of the hand when greeting someone, who knows? Judas had kissed Jesus in the garden of Gethsamane to signal he to the soldiers he was the one. So a kiss is a sort of greeting back then. Mary Magdalene maybe was a person who instead of a kiss, use to hug and touch on men but, not in soliciting way, knowing women back in those days couldn’t touch men under no circumstances, and maybe that’s the reason why she was thought to be a prostitute. For Jesus to say touch me not, he knew her character better than anyone else.

Jesus had allowed Thomas to touch him. “Why that’s not fear” I thought to myself, after all he told Mary don’t. Mary was the first to see him, when xhe had told her he has not yet ascended to the Father and he gave her orders to go tell his disciples. It could only meant that Jesus stopped on his way to the Father to comfort Mary in her distress over him and then continued on afterwards. What Mary had seen may have been the spirit of Jesus not his flesh. Like what the three disciples saw of him on the Mount of Transfiguration.

Second Glorious Mystery: The Ascension. Jesus ascends to heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father. At the right hand of the Father, he sits there as our advocate. The Third Glorious Mystery: The Descent of the Holy Spirit. The days of Pentecost had come as they were in one place and one accord. Tongues of fire rested on each of them, and they all spoke in other languages filled with the Holy Spirit. The Fourth Glorious Mystery: The Assumption. Mary is assumed into heaven, taken up like Elijah to be with her son Jesus. The Fifth Glorious Mystery: The Coronation of Mary. Mary is crowded Queen of heaven and earth by her son Jesus.

When meditating on the Glorious Mystery of the Holy Rosary it empowers me within my spirit as a woman and a mother the gift we are given by God to bear his children to whom like Jesus one day will change the world in such a profound and unprecedented way.