A Paschal Candle

"Then Jesus said to her, 'Mary!' And behold Magdalen's great sorrow is turned into joy! Her tears of affliction are changed into tears of love. Scarcely does she hear her name 'Mary', that name so familiar on the lips of the Master, than she feels an unutterable sweetness, the name resounds with such a charm on her ear. Only the Savior could so pronounce it. Immediately she came back to herself, life re-awoke in her heart....O mighty and impatient love, it did not suffice her to see Jesus and to hear Jesus, but more, she must touch Jesus. She knew indeed that virtue went out from Him; and that this virtue went out from Him; and that this virtue healed all that afflicted her." 

~ Origen