Mary Magdlene and the search for the sacred femiene

I actually went to church the other day, yes a christen church. And the whole point of the sermon was all around the Da Vinci code and Mary Magdalene. I was honestly shocked as I have taken some interest in the woman and done some superficial research in her long before the book or the movie. As superficial as my research was it was deep enough to understand that she was not a prostitute and that she was indeed an apostle being the first person to see Christ after the resurrection and did indeed tell the men that he was back and not quite the same. Thus being a sort of apostle to the apostles, though she was never given credit for it. No she was always just the whore that Jesus saved.

But here in this church, Methodist, on this Sunday this pastor is all about preaching the facts and believe it or not he actually gets it right. Right down to the apostle thing as well as the fact that she was not a whore, he even makes mention that she was not tied to a man as in she was not Mary the mother of .... or Mary the wife of... as was customary in that time. Now he did not make mention of the fact that she was pretty self sufficient for a woman of that time and that she more then likely had to of ha some cash of her own to pull that off and that there is a good chance that she was a big chunk of the bankroll behind that big tour of traveling around and performing miracles and all but none of that is scriptural this is historical and deductible of what we know of history. And he never claimed to speak outside of scripture so he did good. Actually he did very very good. Being raised as a Catholic and being told things that just pretty much insulted my intelligence for the most part, I was pretty shocked to hear these things.

They had a meeting after the mass to talk with those that would like to consider membership. I went to see the Da Vinci Code instead. I liked it despite the bad reviews from Cannes. I just love the fact that it has stirred up all of this controversy and got folks thinking about the sacred feminine again. That it is challenging preachers and pastors and priests and ministers to evaluate the scripture and to right these wrongs that have perpetuated for so long now.

Come to think of it my first school ever was St. Mary Magdalene's.