Saint Gertrude Parish - Lasne

Dear brothers and sisters, Mary Magdalene was not entirely wrong in believing she was meeting the guardian of the garden! She was indeed to hear his name again and understand her task from the New Man, the one who, in another passage from John, says: “Behold, I make all things new” (Rev 21:5). Pope Francis, in the encyclical Laudato si’ , showed us the extreme necessity of a contemplative gaze: if humankind is not the guardian of the garden, it becomes its destroyer. Christian hope, therefore, responds to the challenges facing all humanity today by pausing in the garden where the Crucified One was laid like a seed, to rise again and bear much fruit.