PLEASANT HILL, CA

Six Masses at Christ the King Parish in Pleasant Hill, CA, celebrated Mary of Magdala. Some features of the Masses were: As parishioners entered the church, there was a picture of M of M on the front walls, Dr. Marcy Fox, the homilist ("reflectionist") was part of the procession and sat on the altar next to the presider, our Magdala committee chose the one reading, as the responsorial we had a meditation time with Sharon Spiller playing the singing bowl and chanting, a film clip with Anne Bancroft as Mary of Magdala was shown after a reading of John's passage on Mary of Magdala, then Marcy gave the homily, during the offertory nine pictures of M of M were projected on the front walls, and the petitions were from Future Church.