Reddit mentions of Sounding the Seasons: Seventy sonnets for Christian year

I thought this poem was apt for you. It is a sonnet to Mary Magdalene, who for centuries was regarded as a former prostitute.

Men called you light so as to load you down,

And burden you with their own weight of sin,

A woman forced to cover and contain

Those seven devils sent by Everyman.

But one man set you free and took your part

One man knew and loved you to the core

The broken alabaster of your heart

Revealed to Him alone a hidden door,

Into a garden where the fountain sealed,

Could flow at last for him in healing tears,

Till, in another garden, he revealed

The perfect Love that cast out all your fears,

And quickened you with love’s own sway and swing,

As light and lovely as the news you bring.

--- by Malcolm Guite, in https://smile.amazon.com/Sounding-Seasons-Seventy-sonnets-Christian/dp/1848252749/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Sounding+the+Seasons&qid=1559079149&s=gateway&sr=8-1