Adore te Devote

“Godhead here in hiding, whom I do adore,

Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more. See, Lord at thy service low lies here a heart,

Lost, all lost in wonder at the God Thou art.” Roman missal Adore te devote by St Thomas Aquinas (13^th Century)

Woman Why are you Weeping? Christ is Risen John chapter 20

Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? 
Whom are you looking for?"She said to them, "They have taken my Lord,
and I don't know where they laid him."....Jesus said to her, "Mary!"
She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni," 
which means Teacher.
Jesus said to her, "Stop holding on to me,
for I have not yet ascended to the Father.
But go to my brothers and tell them,
'I am going to my Father and your Father,
to my God and your God.'"
Mary went and announced to the disciples,
"I have seen the Lord,"
and then reported what he had told her.

Mary mourned  in the deepest way and with such emotion over the death of her Lord Jesus. It was not until she heard Christ speak her name personally that she recognized that he had risen. She was not meant to stay there in her sorrow nor to remain there holding  on to our risen  Lord but instead she was called  to be an apostle to the apostles. She was called to believe and then to go and announce the good news that

                                                        Christ is Risen Alleluia!
                                           Like Mary, can you hear Him calling you by name?