Wednesday 1st May 2024 – 23 Parmouti 1740
Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil. John 12:3
The house filled with this scent represents the entire universe, the whole world: “Wherever this Gospel is preached throughout the world”, the smell of her work spreads with the preaching of the Gospel, and the Gospel becomes a “memorial to her”, for in the text of the Song of Songs the bridegroom smells the smell of the bride, and in the Gospel also the precious smell of Christ that filled the whole house becomes like a good thing that pleases the whole body of the Church in all the world and the whole world.
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
