Feast of Mary Magdalene – Temple of the Magdalene Mystery School

FREE Magdalene Events

Published on July 15, 2017 by Authentic Freedom Academy1 Comment

Good morning, there are two FREE Magdalene events planned for the coming week! Register today and reserve your place. It is all FREE!

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From July 20 to July 22 (the actual Feast Day of the Magdalene), we will be joined by incredible women who have devoted to, held counsel with, researched, written about, and expressed the essence of the woman named Mary Magdalene. Woman to Goddess, the stories of Mary Magdalene encompass the whole of human and divine experience. She is known as apostle, disciple, beloved, bride, whore, teacher, saint, and Goddess.

PRESENTERS

Interviewer – Kimberly F. Moore – Founder of MotherHouseand Mystery School of the Goddess.

Margaret Starbird presenting Bride in Exile – author, lecturer, and Mary Magdalene scholar. Website: MargaretStarbird.net

Elizabeth Cunningham presenting Mary Magdalen and modern Midrash: A Novelist’s Dream – Author of the Maeve Chronicles. Website: ElizabethCunninghamWrites.com

Katherine Skaggs presenting Mary Magdalene: Priestess of Initiation – Artist, author, teacher, and Shamanic Practitioner. Website: KatherineSkaggs.com

Lauri Ann Lumby presenting Priestess in the Temple of the Magdalene – Author, teacher, and Magdalene Priestess. Website: TempleoftheMagdalene.com

Renee Starr presenting the Garden of the Magdalene – Author, teacher, mythologist, and artist. Website: BacktotheGoddess.com

Mary Petiet presenting Seeking Mary Magdalene – Author and storyteller. Website: MaryPetiet.com

Dr. April Heaslip presenting Regenerating Magdalene:Mythological Perspectives on the Return of the Divine Feminine – Mythologist and educator. Website: AprilHeaslip.com

**All registrants will automatically be added to email lists. THANK YOU!

Please also join us for:

FREE online service dedicated to Mary Magdalene, who here represents and guides us on the Path of the Beloved.

The Path of the Beloved is that which guides us to ourselves. Here we find the full integration between the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine within us while embodying our fullest potential as both fully Divine and fully Human! Here we find a life of fulfillment and joy in our unique giftedness – both in service to ourselves and in service to the betterment of the world.

Mary Magdalene is the only one identified to have completed the full course of Jesus’ teachings and was initiated as co-equal partner and Beloved with Christ. It was to Mary whom Jesus first revealed his resurrected/Christed Self and it was Mary he commissioned to share the good news with the other disciples and to continue his work in his stead.

Mary, honored with the title “Magdalene” (meaning “Great Tower”), most fully understood, integrated and then embodied the highest and deepest levels of Jesus’ teachings, becoming fully self-actualized through Jesus’ guidance. In becoming self-actualized, Mary, in the fullness of her humanness, embodied her own Divinity – like Jesus, becoming fully human and fully divine. Through this level of knowledge, Mary experienced the alchemical, transformative and UNIVERSAL truth inherent in Jesus’ teachings – the truth of Oneness – oneness within one’s self, with the Divine, with others and with all of creation. It is the truth of this Oneness that Mary then went on to teach, along with the alchemical, initiatory process that Jesus facilitated for her and taught her to facilitate for others. Mary’s mission, then, could be said to support others in their own self-actualization.

The service is self-guided and to be completed in your own time. Plan for 1-2 hours to complete the service and along with meditation and ritual suggestions.

Thank you for joining us on this auspicious day!

Honoring Mary Magdalene

Published on July 22, 2016July 22, 2016 by Authentic Freedom Academy2 Comments

Today, July 22nd, has been designated The Feast of Mary Magdalene by the Catholic Church. Please join us in celebrating this amazing woman who became the fulfillment of Jesus’ message of love. Please join us for the FREE online service which you may participate in anytime between now and July 20th. Click on the image below to join:

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Please also enjoy this beautiful reflection on Mary Magdalene and her feast day from my friend and fellow-Magdalene, Kathy Walczyk:

Last month the pope uplifted Mary Magdalene. He officially elevated the day of her memorial to a full Feast Day in the Catholic Church. In making this change, the pope calls her an apostle to the apostles.

In a letter announcing the change, a Vatican secretary wrote, this decision means one “should reflect more deeply on the dignity of women, the New Evangelization, and the greatness of the mystery of Divine Mercy.”

We get a glimpse of Mary Magdalene through the male writers of the gospel. What would women writers have said about her? About Jesus? What would Mary say to us, today, if she could speak?

Mary Magdalene: She walked upright, with dignity when she was with him. She carried her own light as she walked alongside of Jesus. When she was with him she was included and worthy of discipleship. Like others treated as second-class citizens, Jesus uplifted those deemed unworthy by society and by religion. Was she ridiculed and judged? Was she allowed to speak, and did she ask questions?

She followed him to the cross and stayed, when the others had left. She watched him suffer for she knew what it was like to suffer. She watched eyes look upon him in judgment, for she knew the look of judgment herself.

Did she sleep that night, the night after Jesus died? Was she afraid, alone, or in shock? What gave her the courage to risk the journey to the tomb?

At the tomb, was it tears that clouded her vision or was it the heartache of loosing her teacher, her friend, her savior? What was it that made it difficult to recognize his face? Jesus called her by her name, Mary. What if, it were one of us there with Jesus after he had risen? If he called our name, what would awaken inside of us? Would we recognize him?

She went on her way to deliver his message and her testimony. Did the others believe her? Did she run with excitement or walk with trepidation? Did the soldiers try to stop her?

We do not know what became of Mary Magdalene. Without Jesus’s earthly presence, did the others include her, uplift her, and give her responsibility worthy of her calling? Did she continue to walk in dignity and with purpose?

Today we read of Jesus’ choice in Mary. He elevated her not by curing illness but by asking her to serve his people. She is today’s example. She is an inspiration to people called to go the extra mile, to stay when others leave, to go against the grain, to seek out what we cannot yet see and to believe despite our disbelief.

Kathy Walczyk’s specialty is challenging you to see your beauty and potential. She facilitates this discovery by supporting your spiritual growth through one-on-one mentoring and group classes. The tools she utilizes include Authentic Freedom and creative expression, including photography. Kathy is also an advocate for spiritual responses to trauma – specifically clergy sexual abuse. Her undergraduate is in Art and Photography and she hold a Master’s Degree in Theological Studies and Pastoral Ministry. She has completed extensive study in the areas of spirituality, sexuality, trauma, and healing. She lives and work in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Kathy can be reached at wals4@aol.com or (920) 609-2657. Her website is www.spiritualmiddleground.com

Feast of the Magdalene FREE Online Service

Published on July 21, 2016July 21, 2016 by Authentic Freedom AcademyLeave a comment

For centuries, the Eastern and Western churches have honored July 22^nd as a day dedicated to Mary Magdalene. In the Catholic Church, this day was designated a memorial. On June 6, 2016, Pope Francis signed a decree that elevated the memorial of the Magdalene to a feast, raising her status as equal to that of the other apostles. While this recognition is long overdue, and nowhere near enough in honoring the importance of the Magdalene, it is a cause for celebration!!!

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Mary Magdalene, Jesus’ closest disciple, is the only one identified to have completed the full course of Jesus’ teachings and was initiated as co-equal partner and Beloved with Christ. It was to Mary whom Jesus first revealed his resurrected/Christed Self and it was Mary he commissioned to share the good new with the other disciples and to continue his work in his stead.

We celebrate this feast in honor of Mary Magdalene in the hopes that doing so will help awaken the world to the truth of Mary’s role in Jesus’ ministry and life, thereby restoring 2000 years of defamation at the hands of a patriarchal, hierarchical Church, further undoing the harm done to women specifically and the feminine in general. In restoring the Holy Feminine to the Jesus story, we also create the space in which the Holy Masculine can reclaim its place in our world, thereby supporting the world in the returning to its original nature in oneness, harmony, peace and love.

Thank you for joining us in this celebration!