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The First Glorious Mystery The Resurrection

CHAPTER 2

Christ's Manifestation of Himself to His Disciples

But He, rising early the first day of the week, appeared
first to Mary Magdalen [after this manner]. Mary came [again] to the sepulcher, and stood without,
weeping. Now as she was weeping, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulcher, and she saw two
angels in white, sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the Body of Jesus had been laid.

They said to her: "Woman, why weepest thou?" She said to them: "Because they have taken away my
Lord, and I know not where they have laid Him." When she had thus said, she turned herself back,
and saw Jesus standing. And she knew not that it was Jesus.

Jesus said to her: "Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? " She, thinking that it was the
gardener, said to Him: "Sir, if Thou hast taken Him hence, tell me where Thou hast laid Him, and I
will take Him away." Jesus said to her: "Mary." She turning, said to Him: "Rabboni" (which is to
say, Master). Jesus said to her: "Do not touch Me, for I am not yet ascended to My Father. But go
to My brethren, and say to them: 'I ascend to My Father and to your Father, to My God and your
God."'

Mary Magdalen went and told the disciples, who were mourning and weeping: "I have seen the Lord,
and these things He said to me!" And they hearing that He was alive, and had been seen by her, did
not believe.

And behold Jesus met the women, saying: "All hail." But they came up and took hold of His feet, and
adored Him. Then Jesus said to them: "Fear not. Go, tell My brethren that they [are to] go into
Galilee; there they shall see Me." And they went quickly, with fear and great joy, running to tell
His disciples. And they told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest. And these words
seemed to them as idle tales, and they did not believe them.