The First Witness of the Resurrection

"I love going back and forth between Mary's extreme trauma, Mary Magdalene's extreme trauma. A lot of times we think of the Blessed Mother so often with that, that traumatic experience," she says. "How fitting for her heart's experience to be at the foot of the cross, witnessing somebody whom she just so deeply loves" She was first one to witness empty tomb; women could not give testimony because they were not viewed as reliable.