The danger in dealing with loss, and where our faith is absolutely crucial—is that we can easily get stuck in our loss, in our grief; I see it all the time and it happens to me too.  We can be so diligent to remember and preserve the past, that we forget to live in the present and open ourselves to the future. It is natural to cherish and cling to the things that have been important to us, especially the Genocide, where life was violently and unjustly stolen from us, an injustice still not duly recognized.  But the second lesson we can learn from Mary Magdalene about loss is that if we cling to it, we get stuck. But if we give it to God, He blesses us and sets us free.  This is the wisdom behind Jesus’ words to Mary, “Do not cling on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father,” but go to my brothers and tell them that I’ve risen, conquered death.