Then she sees Jesus Himself, but fails to recognize Him. Her initial disbelief gradually turns to faith when she sees two angels and asks them if they know where Jesus’ body has been taken. The two disciples return home but Mary Magdalene remains at the tomb in tears. They in turn hurry to the empty tomb and discover that the body of the Lord is missing. And on the morning of the first day of the week, she returns to the tomb, finds the stone rolled away, and runs to warn Peter and John. She is still there when Joseph of Arimathea places the body of Jesus in the sepulcher, which is closed with a stone. Mary Magdalene appears in the Gospels in the most dramatic moment of Jesus’ life, when she accompanies Him to Calvary and, along with other women, observes Him from afar. And so, in some popular traditions, Mary Magdalene has come to be identified with this Mary of Bethany, after being confused with the prostitute of Galilee. But, according to Cardinal Ravasi, there is a further misunderstanding: anointing with perfumed oil is a gesture that was also performed by Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, on a different occasion, as reported by the Evangelist, St John. This is only because in Chapter 7 of Luke’s Gospel we read of the conversion of an anonymous “known sinner in that city” who, when Jesus was a guest in the house of a notable Pharisee, bathed His feet with perfume and her tears and dried them with her hair.” Without any real textual connection, Mary of Magdala was identified with that unnamed prostitute. But, until now, tradition has claimed that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. Among these was a certain “Mary, called the Magdalene, from whom seven demons came out.” Misconceptions about her identity: she was not a prostituteĪs Biblical exegesis teaches, the expression ‘seven demons’ could indicate a serious physical or moral malady that had struck the woman and from which Jesus had freed her. St Luke the Evangelist tells us, in Chapter 8 of his Gospel, how Jesus went from town to town announcing the Good News of the Kingdom of God, and how the Twelve Apostles were with Him together with some women who had been healed of evil spirits or infirmities, and were serving them. Her name comes from her home town of Magdala, a fishing village on the western shore of Lake Tiberias. “Apostle of the Apostles” is the title given Mary Magdalene by St Thomas Aquinas.
At risk of blowing up the house here, lol, Chopra wrote a piece on this a day ago.įrom the Vatican News Apostle of the Apostles I want to put the energy, heart and spirit into putting it right, not holding onto how we’ve been wronged or destroyed.Īnd as I said in my other answer, it is the return of the sacred feminine that is needed in both women and men for this to happen.
For me what is important is not the 1000’s of years of the tsunami of oppression, misrepresentation (shall we go back to the garden of Eden and the serpent being a symbol of the goddess?), subjugation, violence etc etc etc but what can change now and how to change.
The new testament was rewritten in a major way at least twice to ‘smooth’ the story and probably to fit agendas of the time. The first gospel was written 40 years after Jesus’s death.
It can’t be known if the apostles abandoned their families or took them with them or even had any or that it was a full time occupation following Christ or Wednesday meetings down at the river with a pint. I wasn’t going to respond the other point, but since I’m back here goes. Please include Santa Barbara or SB in the plot information of any burials that are that section.I took wikipedia because it was the first one up on the search. For Mount Calvary Cemetery's current purposes, and for Find A Grave's purposes, Santa Barbara is now listed as a section of Mount Calvary.
Older death certificates and burial records may list the burial as Santa Barbara. When the new portion of the cemetery was established, Santa Barbara became a section of the larger Mount Calvary Cemetery. Per the Mount Calvary Cemetery Supervisor, the original section of this cemetery was called Santa Barbara Cemetery.