Readings of the day: RB 46 Faults Committed Elsewhere
Mass: Is 42:1-7; Resp Ps 27; Jn 12:1-11
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| 1st century alabaster jar |
Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil made from genuine
aromatic nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair.
There is only one anointing that is strong enough to meet death and that is the anointing of the Holy Spirit, the love of God. There is, then, something that is both exemplary and lasting in Mary’s anointing of Jesus at Bethany. It was above all a concern to keep Christ alive in this world and to oppose the powers that aimed to silence and kill him. It was an act of faith and love. Every such act can have the same effect.
(Pope Benedict XVI)
THE HOUSE WAS FILLED WITH THE FRAGRANCE OF THE OIL.
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