I think my last post was a cry for a Mary in my life. I need something feminine, and until I get comfortable with the Goddess, which I admit I don't understand, I need a female spirit. But maybe Mary Magdalene would be better for me. She was definitely human.
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Once again, it's hard to know where to start with you....I hate to see you so confused and frustrated when you don't have to be. Many of us Nuns have a love hate relationship with the official church and her teaching on just about everything these days. They complicate things so much for "the faithful." People are so much more educated than they may have been back in the dark ages, yet, in some ways, it seems people have grown from children to adults while their church is still way back there....Mother (my name for Mary) is very real and very available to you, but not as a pious saint. I'm sure she often could gag at the way she has been portrayed. I don't believe in the way she is portrayed in the apparitions as someone who would show us horrible visions of things to come if we don't repent. I'm not sure what that is all about, but it is not from Mother. And, the Goddess, yes, I wondered about that myself some twenty years ago when I found myself spontaneously making goddess images everytime I picked up the clay. The women in my pottery classes were always so excited when their clay pieces came out of the kiln and looked like the goddess. What I learned is that there is a Feminine energy, an expression of the Divine mystery that is feminine that wants to be expressed and has always wanted to be expressed. In the days, thousands of years ago when God was a woman, people recognized this energy and revered it. Women today, just like you want to know and realize that they and everything female is Sacred. In a patriarchal paradigm, female has been religated to inferior and called misbegotten males. The longing for the feminine and for Mother is rising in the collective unconsciousness of our species. You and your struggles with the sterotypical icons of our religion around Mary and our version of the Divine feminine is just the tip of the iceburg. Go with the deep truth you know within you. Listen to the voice of Mother within and she will tell you and has been telling you for sometime what's really up with her and the church and religion these day. Keep questioning, though, you are on the right track even though it may lead you away from people who are not there yet. More will be revealed. Blessings on your search. Sr.K
ahh... Mary Magdalene... just a few weeks ago, something began stirring inside my soul... I thought it was Mother Mary, but each time I searched the net for Mother Mary as Goddess.. I would come up with Mary Magdalene, but something inside me kept screeching NO!!!, Mary Magdalene cannot be a Goddess (it was the conditioning childhood stuff) so I fought Mary Magdalene.. Sr.K helped me see Mary Magdalene as Goddess and since then, I have embraced MM as my helper and I have felt her around me.. and it feels so right.
I am also probably the only person who sat and cried in the DaVinci Code.. that movie touched my soul like no other, I knew it was perfectly correct... I am not sure if my comment here has made much sense, there is so much I want to say... please visit my blog - Tales of Inglewood and have a read, and you will realize you & I are on the same journey - and please, please email me anytime you wish.. I am always wanting to meet other women who search as I do.
blessings & much bliss to you always xoxo
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