A Flower Crown for Mary Magdalene
A Reading from The Holy Gospel : According to Dallas :
From The Chosen’s Mary Magdalene:
“He already fixed me once… and I broke again.”
“I was one way… and now I am completely different.”
Homily :
APOSTLE TO THE APOSTLES : DISCIPLE TO THE DISCIPLES
gaslighting, isolation, lack of empathy, exploitative behavior, denies wrong doing
ALL THINGS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DOES TO PEOPLE
“According to The National Domestic Violence Hotline, abuse is defined as a pattern of behavior that uses fear/force to maintain power/control.”
We see this very clearly represented by The Bridegrooms (Priests) relationships through what I call;
THE HOLY TRINITY OF ABUSE :
The three types of this abuse are grandiose, vulnerable and malignant narcissism.
Today’s Catholic Church resembles all three of them and unfortunately, so does Father Mike, because for them, this is BOTH a head issue and a heart issue. So I’m going to give some reasons, but those reasons might not hit your heart, or the hearts of all the others who believe what you believe, because they too are blinded by their abuser.
In our first reading, Pope Leo said, “… signs of hope in a world marked by absurd and inhumane violence, which in these times, driven by greed and hatred, spreads ferociously in the very lands that saw the rise of salvation.” And all I can think about is how he teaches people, from birth, that they need him in order to have a relationship with God. He believes you need paperwork filed with his church to receive the sacraments. He believes that he and a bunch of men, can sit in a room and make laws about other humans bodies, especially women’s, when there is not a single woman in the room.
Father Mike, he does and believes all the same things, and then gives a homily on Easter Sunday about a man named Lee Strobel, who went on this investigative journey to prove faith should exist, and completely disregards Mary Magdalene in the gospel, as well as the representation of her in his own story… her name is Leslie, by the way. It went right over your head, didn’t it? And then the arrow grazed your heart, but you didn’t even notice?
Now, to make things crystal clear, I will move on with a quote, from Jesus Christ to Simon Peter, then we will pause for a brief vocabulary lesson, and continue with my many reasons, that again, might not hit your head or heart, but will still be true.
Matthew Chapter 16 Verse 18
“And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.”
Webster’s Dictionary Defines the word : UPON
UPON : more formal term for on, especially in abstract senses
INTRIGUING, it seems we, are dealing ESPECIALLY in ABSTRACT senses….
Matthew Chapter 28 Verse 1
After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to the tomb.
Matthew Chapter 28 Verse 10
“Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.”
Mark Chapter 16 Verse 1
When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary, mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go and annoit him.
Mark Chapter 16 Verse 9
When he had risen, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons.
John Chapter 20 Verse 1
On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb.
John Chapter 20 Verse 15
Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” She thought it was the gardener and said to him, “Sir if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him.”
John Chapter 20 Verse 16-17
Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni,” which means Teacher. Jesus said to her, “Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am going to my Father and YOUR Father, to my God and YOUR God.’”
John Chapter 20 Verse 18
Mary of Magdala went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and what he told her.
Luke Chapter 24 Verse 9-11
Then they returned from the tomb and announced all these things to the eleven and to all the others. The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James; the others who accompanied them also told this to the apostles, but their story seemed like nonsense and they did not believe them.
Luke Chapter 24 Verse 12
But PETER got up and ran to the top, bent down, and saw the burial clothes alone; then he went home amazed at what had happened.
Matthew Chapter 16 Verse 18
“And so I say to you, you are Peter, and UPON this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.”
ON THIS ROCK, I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH… MY BRIDE, MY HOME BASE, MY HEART, MY FRIEND… MY MARY MAGDALENE.
And what’s the alternative? That I believe everything you say about Jesus’ time here on Earth, and that it was not written on my heart to also be a priest, like you… well to that, I say, fine… because Jesus still showed us that, no matter how amazing a woman is, God himself could come down to Earth, IN A BUBBLE, be born through a woman, become man and would STILL need to DIE, go to Heaven and come back down as The Holy Spirit, in order to overcome the patriarchy himself, and grant a woman the ability to speak. Yikes.
And if you still can’t see through your closed eyes… I say to you, “FINE, I am officially convinced that women, according to Jesus, are to be the Pope, Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops… while the priestly rules are left to the men folk… except I wouldn’t actually WANT to do that, I would want every little boy and girl to be treated equally from birth to death… but if the narcissistic shoe fits… well, I would love a glass slipper to shatter.
Speaking of feet, I find it intriguing that Pope Leo went back to the “traditional way” of only washing Priests’ feet, the way Jesus did… so it again becomes very obvious to everyone that since Mary washed the feet of Jesus AND THEN he in turn washed the feet of their disciples…; that would make Mary THE Pope.
