| Tuesday, April 02, 2013 Tuesday in the Octave of Easter |
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"Why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?"
“Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” Holy angels, you well know whom she is weeping and looking for, so why stir up her tears by calling him to her mind? However, Mary can give free rein to all her sorrow and tears because the happiness of an unlooked for consolation is drawing near. “She turned around and saw Jesus standing there but did not recognize him.” A touching scene, filled with goodness, in which he who is desired and sought reveals himself while hiding himself. He hides himself so as to be sought even more ardently, found with even more joy, held even more carefully until he is brought, so as to remain there, into the dwelling place of love (cf Sg 3,4). This is how Wisdom, who “finds her delight in the sons of men, plays on the surface of the earth” (Pr 8,31).
“Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” Do you have him you are looking for and not know him? The true, eternal joy and you weep? You have within you the one you are looking for without. In truth, you are standing outside in floods of tears beside a tomb. My tomb is your heart. I am not dead in it but resting, alive for eternity. Your soul is my garden and you are right to think I am the gardener. The new Adam, I tend and keep my paradise. Your tears, your love and your desire are my work. You possess me within you without knowing it and that is why you seek me without. So I am going to appear to you there, too, to make you return to yourself so as to find within what you are looking for without.