The encounter between Mary Magdalene (feast day: July 22) and Jesus has been called the encounter "between misery and mercy." Dr. Bryan Thatcher explains.
The set quiets down, and cameraman Jason Addington zooms his lens to frame the face of Fr. Joseph Roesch, MIC. All right, stand by, Jason says. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 ...
Fortunately, a friend saw that this physician of the body needed some medicine for the soul and gave him a copy of a book many Catholics in the U.S. would eventually come to know and love: the Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska.