Steve Moody's Christmas Monologues have been popular with users of this website, so we're very happy to post two new Easter Monologues. One is from the perspective of Mary Magdalene, and the other from Thomas.

These could work really well on Easter Sunday or other Sundays in Eastertide. Extracts are printed below, you can download the full PDFs by signing in and using the link to the right.

Mary Monologue 

(John 20.1-18)

Some days do not go the way you plan them. Do you know what I mean?

I should introduce myself. I am Mary. A while ago I met Jesus, and he changed my life. Before he arrived, my life was a terrible struggle. I was trapped inside my body and my mind was full of whispers and taunts and suggestions. People did not know what to make of me and so they stayed away. I was so alone. And then he came and everything changed. I could think straight and see straight. And I felt…loved.

I have been following him ever since. 

And then this last weekend he was taken away. My heart broke. To watch him suffer and die. It felt like something of me died with him. We were all devastated. Yesterday we did not know what to do with ourselves. There was nothing.

And then today.

I went to the grave to do what was necessary. It was the least we could do. Some last respects, some final care for his body and a goodbye, I guess. I wanted to do that. For him.

BUT when I got there, he was not there. I didn’t know what to do so I went back and found the others. My words made no sense. They may even have sounded disrespectful in the wake of all that we were coming to terms with… “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”  That’s what I said [...]

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Thomas Monologue 

(John 20.24-29)

Some people have a name for me. People often have names. They called me Doubting Thomas. 

I don’t really think it is fair. Just because I am a man who likes clarity. I like to see the evidence. I like to know why. I think that is only reasonable. Take for an example when Jesus starting telling us that he was going away a few days ago. He was not always straightforward when he talked. He never minded questions though and I never minded asking, wondering. What’s wrong with that? So when Jesus started saying he was going way, and that we knew the way to the place he was going, I told him straight up, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” That’s when he told us he was the way, the truth and the life. And there you have it an answer…although I have to confess I still was not absolutely sure what he was saying.

And so I don’t think it was at all unreasonable to express some healthy reservation when my friends starting saying that they had seen him alive. Seen him alive after he died only two days ago, seen him alive after all that happened. To be honest I was angry. How could they be so flippant? Had they forgotten so soon? Has they lost all sense? To me it seemed not only unreasonable but frankly disrespectful.

And I told them straight. Told them what any reasonable person would have said, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.” Alright, I did lay it on a but thick but my point stands. Seeing is believing [...]

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