Day 29: Easter Sunday

But Mary stood at the sepulcher, weeping outside. Then as she wept, she stooped to the sepulcher, and beholds two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. And they say to her, Woman, why weepest thou? She says to them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have put Him. And saying these things, she turned back, and beheld Jesus standing, and she knew not that it was Jesus. Jesus says to her, Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? She, thinking that He was the gardener, says to Him, Lord [Sir], if Thou hast carried Him hence, tell me where Thou hast put Him, and I will take Him away. Jesus says to her, Mary. She, turning, says to Him, Rabboni, which is to say, Teacher. Jesus says to her, Touch Me not, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brothers, and say to them, I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God. John 20:11-17

As men rise again after death, therefore the Lord willed to undergo death and to rise again the third day, but to the end that He might put off everything human that He had from the mother and might put on the Divine Human. For everything human that the Lord took from the mother He rejected from Himself by temptations, and finally by death... The same is involved in what the Lord said to Mary Magdalene: “Touch Me not, for I have not yet ascended to My Father” (John 20:17). “To ascend to His Father” means the uniting of His Human with His Divine, the human from the mother being fully rejected. Apocalypse Explained 899:14

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