Browsing: Apostle to the Apostles

Source: Public Orthodoxy VK McCarty Anglican Theologian and Lecturer at General Theological Seminary One of the aspects I’ve enjoyed in my faith pilgrimage in Orthodoxy has been the right-spirited acknowledgement of Mary Magdalene as the Apostle to the Apostles—Apostolorum Apostola—and the admirable regard the Orthodox Church holds for her. Witnessing to the Resurrection is a shining attribute, not only of Mary Magdalene, but of the Resurrection story as a whole. The Gospel stories we hear week after week during Pascha herald the joy and life-transformation we share with Mary Magdalene and all the other witnesses to the Resurrection of Jesus…