{"id":1307,"date":"2019-07-22T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T11:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2025-09-29T03:05:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:05:28","slug":"feast-day-today-saint-mary-magdalene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1307","title":{"rendered":"Feast Day today: Saint Mary Magdalene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As St. Thomas Aquinas observed &#8211; &#8220;The Apostle to the Apostles.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4996907200d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4996907200d-200wi\" alt=\"Mary magdalen Jesus appearance\" title=\"Mary magdalen Jesus appearance\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Appearance of Jesus Christ to Maria Magdalena<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little bit about her <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Magdalene#During_Jesus's_ministry\">During Jesus&#8217;s Ministry<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And a recent article in America Magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/faith\/2019\/07\/16\/how-can-church-honor-women-elevate-mary-magdalenes-feast-solemnity?utm_source=Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=a82bc99d82-FAITH_CAMPAIGN_2019_7_21&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_0fe8ed70be-a82bc99d82-58468933\">Nothing in the Gospel occurs by mere chance. It is highly significant that in a society where men wielded power in almost every aspect of life, Christ chose a woman to be the first to see him after his resurrection and to announce the news to his apostles.<\/a> suggesting that her Feast Day be raised to the level of a Solemnity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As St. Thomas Aquinas observed &#8211; &#8220;The Apostle to the Apostles.&#8221; Appearance of Jesus Christ to Maria Magdalena Here&#8217;s a little bit about her During Jesus&#8217;s Ministry And a recent article in America Magazine Nothing in the Gospel occurs by mere chance. It is highly significant that in a society where men wielded power in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12501,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/12501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}