Madeleine begins, not to speak but to act. She wipes the feet of Jesus with her) hair, her luxury, her seduction. Shededicates to the feet of Master) what likes him most heart … Let us avoid the natural ties also let us avoid the spiritual ties.. That all this belongs to the feet of Jesus, that He makes of all this what pleases him.
“.. She kissed her feet “
The kiss is the Madeleine’s second offering. She began with the sacrifice: then, emboldened by the kindness of the One who lets her make and who encourages him at the bottom of the heart, Madeleine dares to put down her kisses on the feet of Master Pécheresse, humbled, held in contempt by thesociety, despised by the world, she is already in the deepest intimacy with the rescuer! Marvel of love which unites the Whole with the nothingness, and with the nothingness And in the nothingness sinner!
” Sheperfumed her feet “
Madeleine’s third action: she spreads her perfumes on the feet of Jesus.
Perfumes represent for us the prayer and the example. The prayer similar to the incense, the example called the perfume of Jesus Christ. To perfume for us, it thus is to offer and to dedicate quite at the same time the close friend of the desire and the outside of the life which is livened up. The prayer of the heart is a desire, a shout of thirst, a call to love!..

mère Christine commentaire sur sainte Marie-Madeleine (1926)