Excerpt from the book Meditations for all the Days of the Year - Let us adore Jesus Christ granting to St. Mary Magdalene the favor of being the first, after the Blessed Virgin, to whom He appeared, after issuing from the tomb. Let us congratulate this illustrious lover of Our Lord and like her thank Jesus Christ by saying, Good Master. Oh, how good He is, and how He does indeed merit our whole heart's love.