Welcoming back the Magdalene Community

In 2003, a group of people came together as a book study group, focusing on the newly released books
about Mary Magdalene, and the awakening interest in the real story of this woman. Eventually, that
group transitioned into a community, meeting for discussions and study; experiencing a spiritual
renewal.

On September 11, 2005, we held our first service of the Mary Magdalene Community at the Rothko
Chapel, a place that became home to our weekly gatherings for ten years. Women and men came
together, hungry to know more, longing to fill a space within their being that traditional church no
longer could touch.

Those years were a time when we, as Americans, questioned most everything we had once held as true.
9-11 had shattered so many of our beliefs. The world we knew would never be the same. We struggled
to find a new normal. We had a perceived enemy to blame, but on the edges of our knowing came
questions without answers. Rumors and misinformation abounded, and those leaders we most trusted
fell by the wayside. We heard about dangerous “cells” being exposed and eliminated but were warned
there were more, many more. They existed in every community. We were no longer safe.
It was a time very much like now.

Today, those dangerous cells are within us and each other; they float in the air between us, always
threatening, imperious to our protection efforts. We wait for outside powers to provide the
answers and solutions.

Now is the time to revisit Mary Magdalene.

Was the Magdalene a luminary figure? She stood as a threshold between two worlds, between old
beliefs and new, between old conditions and the invitation to freely walk into a new world. A world no
longer restricted and bound to ancient traditions, a world under creation.

Never before have we so needed the Magdalene’s knowing, her quiet confidence, and leadership. She could stand before the unknown without wavering and leave the past, taking with her only the “good”

that she knew had to be shared.

She knew what it means to be fully human.

So join us.

Like Mary, we stand to greet you, our brothers and sisters, our spiritual family, offering comfort and
encouragement. We will meet in conversation and silence as we share our own understanding, our own
knowing. There is no need to relearn all that we discovered before, for we know there are no demons here.  As we grow in new ways, we will find the guidance that comes from within.

             Contact Us At:

MMagdalene2020@gmail.com