End Notes: 

[1] Cornelious Lapide, The Great Biblical Commentary, Gospel of St Matthew Chapter 28, v. 1.
[2] Cornelious Lapide, The Great Biblical Commentary, Gospel of St Matthew Chapter 28, v. 2.
[3*] At Jesus’ initial greeting, Mary Magdaline thinks He is the gardener. Adam, the first man, was a gardener, and here she thinks the New Adam was likewise a gardener, and yet in another way Our Lord does fit this title as the Gardener of our souls. 
[4] St Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Tertia Pars, Question 57, Article 1, Reply OBJ 4.
[5*] “All power”: See here the warrant and commission of the apostles and their successors, the bishops and pastors of Christ’s church. He received from his Father all power in heaven and in earth: and in virtue of this power, he sends them (even as his Father sent him, St. John 20. 21) to teach and disciple, not one, but all nations; and instruct them in all truths: and that he may assist them effectually in the execution of this commission, he promises to be with them, not for three or four hundred years only, but all days, even to the consummation of the world. How then could the Catholic Church ever go astray; having always with her pastors, as is here promised, Christ himself, who is the way, the truth, and the life. St. John 14.” (Douay Rheims footnote)
[6] Cornelious Lapide, The Great Biblical Commentary, Gospel of St Luke Chapter 24, v. 50. 
[7] St Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Tertia Pars, Question 57, Article 6
[8] St Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year, Pentecost.
[9*] “The prodigy is not to cease with the day of Pentecost, nor with the Disciples who are its first receivers. When the Apostles have terminated their lives and preaching, the gift of tongues, at least in its miraculous form, will cease, because no longer needed: but thou, O Church of Christ! wilt continue to speak all languages, even to the end of time, for thou art to dwell in every clime. The one same Faith is to be expressed in the language of every country; and thus transformed, the miracle of Pentecost is to be kept up forever within thee, as one of thy characteristic marks. The great St. Augustine alluded to this when he spoke the following admirable words: ‘The whole body of Christ—the Church—now speaks in all tongues. Nay, I myself speak all tongues, for I am in the body of Christ, I am in the Church of Christ. If the body of Christ now speaks all languages, then am I in all languages. Greek is mine, Syriac is mine, Hebrew is mine, and all are mine, for I am one with all the several nations that speak them.’ During the Ages of Faith, the Church…succeeded in giving one common language to all the nations that were in union with her. For centuries, the Latin language was the bond of union between civilized countries. However distant these might be from one another, there was this link of connection between them; it was the medium of communication for political negotiations, for the spread of science…No one was a stranger in any part of the West, or even beyond it, who could speak this language.” Dom Prosper Guéranger, The Liturgical Year, Whit Sunday – Pentecost.
[10] Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73), The Lives of the Saints, Volume VIII: August, 1866. ; St Bridget of Sweden from The Prophecies and Revelations of St Bridget of Sweden and Her Life with Various Prayers.
[11] St Bridget of Sweden from The Prophecies and Revelations of St Bridget of Sweden and Her Life with Various Prayers.
[12] Ibid., The Raccolta. The Account of St John the Theologian of the Falling Asleep of the Mother of God.
[13*] The Account of St John the Theologian of the Falling Asleep of the Mother of God. The assembling of the Apostles to the Blessed Mother is done in a similar way as St Philip when he baptized the eunuch as revealed in Acts 8:38-40.
[14] The Raccolta. Pope Pius XII, Munificentissimus Deus, 1950.
[15] The Account of St John the Theologian of the Falling Asleep of the Mother of God.
[16] The Raccolta. Pope Pius XII, Munificentissimus Deus, 1950. In some accounts, St Thomas arrives late and asks the Apostles to take him to the tomb on the 3rd day after her burial, at which time, they show him the tomb and discover the Virgin’s body had been assumed into heaven. 
[17] Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73), The Lives of the Saints, Volume VIII: August, 1866.
[18] A Prayer of St Francis of Assisi, St JoseMaria Escriva, Christ is Passing By, 171.
[19] Pope Piux IX, Ubi Primum, citing St Bernard; Pope Pius X, Ad Diem Illum.

All other quotes and references may be found in the texts of the sacred Scriptures cited after each mystery above.