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| | Mary Magdalene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Mary Magdalene is described, both in the canonical New Testament and in the New Testament apocrypha, as a devoted disciple of Jesus. | | | A group of scholars have suggested that for one early group of Christians Mary Magdalene was a leader of the early Church and maybe even the unidentified Beloved Disciple, to whom the Fourth Gospel commonly called Gospel of John is ascribed. | | | Scholars however believe that Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, and the woman Jesus rescued as well as the one who anointed him at Simon the Lepers house in the Gospel of Luke, are all different women. |
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| | BBC - Religion & Ethics - The real Mary Magdalene |
| | Mary Magdalene is mentioned in each of the four gospels in the New Testament, but not once does it mention that she was a prostitute or a sinner. | | | However in the Gospel of Mary, she is the one in charge, telling the disciples about Jesus' teachings. | | | The Bible says that Mary Magdalene was present at the two most important moments in the story of Jesus: the crucifixion and the resurrection. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/features/biblemysteries/mary.shtml
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| | Mary as Goddess: Magdalen |
| | Three of the New Testament Gospels report that Mary Magdalen was at the foot of the cross, and all four Gospels note she was present at the tomb. | | | In seeking to unravel the mystery of the Marys in the New Testament, it is important to note at the outset that the Gospels were a later-recording of an oral history. | | | Thirdly, Mary Magdalen is identified in Mark and Luke as the woman who was possessed by seven demons, which Yeshua cast out of her. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Mary Magdalen |
| | Mary Magdalen was so called either from Magdala near Tiberias, on the west shore of Galilee, or possibly from a Talmudic expression meaning "curling women's hair," which the Talmud explains as of an adulteress. | | | Yet it is Mary Magdalen who, according to all the Evangelists, stood at the foot of the cross and assisted at the entombment and was the first recorded witness of the Resurrection. | | | At a later period Mary and Martha turn to "the Christ, the Son of the Living God", and He restores to them their brother Lazarus; a short time afterwards they make Him a supper and Mary once more repeats the act she had performed when a penitent. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09761a.htm
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| | Society of Biblical Literature |
| | In his conclusion Marjanen argues that the tradition of Mary Magdalene as a prominent Gnostic disciple emerges in the early second century, probably rooted in the role she is given in the canonical gospels as the first witness of Jesus' resurrection (John 20:14-18; Mark 16:9-11). | | | In the latter, the relationship between Jesus and Mary is purely spiritual — Mary is Jesus' spiritual consort (syzygos) — but she is not given any special role in the transmission of spiritual mysteries. | | | In his discussions of the Gospel of Mary (which is unfortunately only partially preserved) and the Gospel of Philip, Marjanen excludes the possibility of any sexual relationship between Jesus and Mary, even though the texts say that Jesus loved her more than the other disciples. |
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| | TIME.com: TIME Magazine -- Mary Magdalene Saint or Sinner? |
| | The so-called Gospel of Mary [Magdalene], which may date from as early as A.D. 125 (or about 40 years after John's Gospel), describes her as having received a private vision from Jesus, which she passes on to the male disciples. | | | Mary Magdalene's image became distorted when early church leaders bundled into her story those of several less distinguished women whom the Bible did not name or referred to without a last name. | | | Nonetheless, feminists have been quick to cite Mary as evidence both of Magdalene's early importance, at least in some communities, and as the virtual play-by-play of a forgotten gender battle, in which church fathers eventually prevailed over the people who never got the chance to be known as church mothers. |
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| | Mary Magdalene, Goddess in the Gospels |
| | Mary is the one from whom Jesus expelled seven demons, the one who washes, anoints and massages him, who witnesses his death and burial and is the first person to whom he appears after his Resurrection. | | | Schenk said the Magdalene services include a "brief reflection on Mary of Magdala," and what she calls "the right of naming." That is, when Jesus calls Magdalene by her name in the Gospel passage John 20:17, "she recognized him" as the risen Christ, and she was called as a disciple. | | | The misreading of Mary Magdalene, critics say, is almost as ancient as the Gospels of the New Testament themselves, if only because there are up to five different Marys in the Gospels and seven in the New Testament as a whole. |
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| | The New Yorker: Fact |
| | According to Chilton, the Magdalene was one of the “shaping forces of Christianity.” Especially important, as he sees it, was her visionary experience, both in the Gnostic Gospels and in the Resurrection announcement, which he takes to be a subjective, not an objective, event. | | | The Magdalene responds by describing a vision she had of the soul’s ascent to truth—a story she shared with Jesus. | | | Add to that the fact that Magdala had a reputation as a licentious city, and that the Magdalene apparently had money (Luke says that she ministered to Jesus out of her “substance”), and we arrive at the conclusion: Mary Magdalene was the sinner who washed Christ’s feet with her tears. |
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http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060213fa_fact2
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| | Mary Magdalene, First Witness of the Resurrection |
| | Mary Magdalene is mentioned in the Gospels as being among the women of Galilee who followed Jesus and His disciples, and who was present at His Crucifixion and Burial, and who went to the tomb on Easter Sunday to annoint His body. | | | Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany (sister of Martha and Lazarus), and the unnamed penitent woman who annointed Jesus's feet (Luke 7:36-48) are sometimes supposed to be the same woman. | | | She was the first to see the Risen Lord, and to announce His Resurrection to the apostles. |
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| | "Da Vinci Code" Spurs Debate: Who Was Mary Magdalene? |
| | Depicted by the Church as a prostitute, Mary Magdalene was an intimate disciple of Christ. | | | She is described by all four Gospels in the New Testament as being present at both the Crucifixion of Jesus and the empty tomb on the morning of his resurrection. | | | "This gospel changes the understanding of the tradition of Mary Magdalene and the Church," said King, whose recent book The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle is the first English-language study of the gospel of Mary. |
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/02/0225_040225_davincicode.html
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| | MARY MAGDALENE |
| | Mary's relationship to Jesus cannot be viewed through the eyes of later Catholic tradition with a celibate Christ and a chaste Sisterhood. | | | If John's Gospel is Magdalene in content, if not authorship, then through it, Mary has become the origin of the "Johannine Community" and by extension, the Jamesian tradition of the Desposynic Church. | | | We have no doubt that Mary was an important figure in early Christianity because the Gospels record her presence at the Crucifixion, Resurrection, Ascension, and Pentecost. |
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http://grailchurch.org/mary_magdalene.htm
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| | Order of Mary the Magdala |
| | Mary Magdalene's name is listed first in the Gospels whenever women are mentioned and the Gnostic Gospel of Phillip calls her the "companion" or "partner" of Jesus, also describing how some of the students became jealous because "Jesus kissed her often on the mouth". | | | He and Mary Magdalene embodied and manifested the archetypes of divine masculine and divine feminine united in the sacred marriage. | | | The Gospel of Mary Magdalene (written in 150 A.D.) translated and with commentary by Jean Yves-Leloup. |
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| | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . FEATURE . Mary Magdalene . November 21, 2003 PBS |
| | KING: Mary Magdalene is important, I think, to women of all faiths because it tells women that they, too, have a history -- and a history that places them at the center of their own traditions, and not merely at its margins as a subsidiary or helpers of those who were doing the real work. | | | And she was the first witness to the resurrection and was sent by Jesus to tell his other disciples of his return. | | | Call to Action and other groups are staging Magdalene's traditional feast day, July 22, as a major celebration in hopes of making her more prominent in the Church. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week712/feature.html
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| | Ani Williams - Mary Magdalene: Mistress of the Grail |
| | Magdalene anoints Jesus with her alabaster jar of spikenard prior to his being captured and crucified, seeming to know the overall plan before it was clear to the other disciples. | | | Mary Magdalene is one of the greatest saints in the history of the church." | | | Magdalene and/or her children could have come as far north as Britain after the crucifixion, and if they did, there could be a Northern Celtic Holy Bloodline, which spread a Christ-Mary genetic inheritance throughout the Western world. |
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http://www.aniwilliams.com/magdalene.htm
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| | explore faith : Knowing More-The Mystery of Mary Magdalene by Marcia Ford |
| | It’s clear from the Gospel of Mary Magdalene that her supposedly intimate relationship with Jesus, however the word “intimate” is interpreted, did not sit well with all of the disciples. | | | Pagels believes it’s that perception of Mary Magdalene that the early church adhered to. | | | It was in the Middle Ages that Mary Magdalene’s association with prostitution became solidified, when a church leader—without any clear evidence to support his theory—identified her as the “immoral woman” referred to in Luke 7:38. |
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| | Mary Magdalene - religious cults and sects |
| | Focusing on the four gospels, the church fathers, noncanonical gospels and, most especially, the gnostic Gospel of Mary, she discovers in Mary Magdalene a "courageous and persistent disciple" of Jesus who, after his death, carried out her own apostolate. | | | Magdalene is most obvious." Her role, he says, was deliberately distorted, a smear campaign by the early church fathers -- as one of his characters declares, "the greatest cover-up in human history." | | | "I think Mary Magdalene is the most fascinating figure in the New Testament outside of Jesus himself," says Charlotte Allen, author of "The Human Christ: The Search for the Historical Jesus." As the first person to see the risen Christ, Magdalene is central to the Resurrection story. |
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| | Mary Magdalene - Who She Was, The Gospel of Mary, The DaVinci Code, Gnostic Gospels, and more -- Beliefnet.com |
| | Mary Magdalene - Who She Was, The Gospel of Mary, The DaVinci Code, Gnostic Gospels, and more -- Beliefnet.com | | | Quiz: Mary Magdalene in the Bible and in pop culture | | | How divine figures from world religions, including Mary Magdalene, can help you in your daily life. |
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| | St. Mary Magdalene |
| | She was called "Magdalene" because she lived in the town of Magdala on the shore of the sea of Galilee, In the Bible we read that she was afflicted with an incurable disease: she was possessed by seven devils (Lk. | | | Mary Magdalen zealously fulfilled the first and greatest commandment: Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy mind and with all thy strength. | | | In the 9th century her incorrupt relics were taken to Constantinople and placed in the church of St. Lazarus' Monastery. |
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| | Cover story -- Essay: Resurrecting Mary Magdalene |
| | The image of Mary Magdalene as a leader in the early church is an inspiration for the Cleveland-based organization FutureChurch, many of whose members are activists for the ordination of women in the Catholic church. | | | In the Gnostic texts, the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, we are presented with Mary Magdalene as someone to whom Jesus gave secret teachings of how to achieve direct spiritual knowledge (called gnosis in Greek), and who argued with Peter over the validity of her knowledge. | | | Esther de Boer, a minister in the Protestant Church of the Netherlands and author of The Gospel of Mary: Beyond a Gnostic and a Biblical Mary Magdalene, advocates the view that the disciple Jesus loved (in the Gospel of John) could well be Mary Magdalene herself. |
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| | Amazon.com: Mary, Called Magdalene: Books: Margaret George |
| | Through the lens of her ever-inquisitive mind, the story covers the formation of Jesus' ragtag band of disciples and the crucifixion, and ends with Mary's mission as the head of the Christian church in Ephesus, where she died at the age of 90. | | | I realize that to even suggest that a close female companion of the apostles may have been a former prostitute has always been a problem for conservative Christians; but to me, it is the unknowable mystery of this holy, female disciple's background and her dramatic conversion to Christ that is part of her appeal. | | | For those who believe that Mary, Mother of Jesus was a Virgin her entire life - the contents of this book will cause varying levels of discomfort - and will be either accepted or rejected as the individual reader sees fit. |
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| | Patron Saints Index: Saint Mary Magdalen |
| | When Mary Magdalen came to the tomb and did not find the Lord's body, she thought it had been taken away and so informed the disciples. | | | We should reflect on Mary's attitude and the great love she felt for Christ; for though the disciples had left the tomb, she remained. | | | After they came and saw the tomb, they too believed what Mary had told them. |
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| | Catholic Online |
| | More about this saint: St. Mary Magdalen (Feast day - July 22) Mary Magdalen was well known as a sinner when she first saw Our Lord. | | | Not finding the Sacred Body, she began to weep, and seeing someone whom she thought was the gardener, she asked him if he knew where the Body of her beloved Master had been taken. | | | She was given the Holy Eucharist daily by angels as her only food, and died when she was 72. |
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| | St. Mary Magdalene's Retreat, Yreka, California |
| | "According to the ancient tradition of the East, Mary Magdalene was a wealthy woman from whom Christ expelled seven demons. | | | During the three years of Jesus’ ministry she helped support Him and His other disciples with her money. | | | This icon was written by Brother Robert Lentz, ofm. |
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| | Anglican Catholic Church - Welcome to St. Mary Magdalene |
| | She was relieved of seven demons by Our Lord and became His follower. | | | There is a stop just across the street from the church. | | | Anglican Catholic Church - Welcome to St. Mary Magdalene |
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| | TEMPLE OF MARY MAGDALENE |
| | Mary Magdalene was identified by Pope Gregory I with a sinful woman described as having anointed the Lord's feet (see Luke 7:37-38) and with Mary the sister of Martha, who also anointed Jesus (see John 12:3), although the Gospels support neither tradition. | | | The feast day of Mary Magdalene is July 22. | | | Jesus healed her of evil spirits (see Luke 8:2) and, following her vigil at the foot of the cross (see Mark 15:40), he appeared to her after his resurrection (see Matthew 28:9). |
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| | Mary Magdalene |
| | An Angel Brings Holy Communion to Mary Magdalen, Lorenzo di Credi, c 1510. | | | Adulteress - Magdalene - Samaritan - Zaccheus - Good Samaritan, Chinese Bible Paintings. | | | Mary Magdalen with Two Angels, Tilman Riemenschneider, 1490-92. |
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| | St. Mary Magdalene Episcopal Church |
| | The mission of St. Mary Magdalene Episcopal Church is to be a Christ-centered congregation where diversity is joyfully celebrated; to be a community which aspires to foster spiritual growth; and to be a healing and | | | Through the power and glory of your name. | | | We also invite you to share with us in Holy Communion and |
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| | Saint Mary Magdalene Church |
| | Please make sure you complete a Parish Registration Card and after doing so please use your parish envelopes in the collection basket. | | | © 2003 St Mary Magdalene Catholic Church - All Rights Reserved | | | Mary Magdalene Catholic Church in Simpsonville, SC is a part of the Diocese of Charleston, SC. |
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| | Church of Mary Magdalene |
| | Mary's Place is meant to be a welcoming and safe environment where women and children can build community, enrich their days, and find resources to improve their lives. | | | Reverend Pat Simpson and the Church of Mary Magdalene were featured twice last year on UMTV (United Methodist Television)! | | | Services are held every Saturday morning in the basement of First United Methodist Church, 424 Columbia Avenue, in downtown Seattle. |
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| | The Mary Magdalene Project |
| | Through an intensive and comprehensive program, the women face, cope with and then overcome the many obstacles that life has dealt them. | | | The Mary Magdalene Project gives women who have been victimized by street prostitution the opportunity to turn their lives around. | | | The Mary Magdalene Project is a successful program that begins the transformation. |
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| | magdalene.org |
| | Old sin hath set a snare for thee: | | | Answer a few questions to participate in a study of this very important figure. | | | Please visit RTE Radio's current four-part series on Mary Magdalene, "Woman With The Wild Thing's Heart." |
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| | Home Page |
| | Thank you for visiting and God bless you. | | | Welcome to the Society of Saint Mary Magdalene. | | | Take some time to explore our website and feel free to contact us at any time with questions or more information about the Society. |
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