THE HOUSE OF MARY MAGDALENE

a spiritual community of radical love

YOU CAN’T BURN WHAT’S ALREADY ON FIRE
sermons to feed the undiscovered fire inside us

“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for god the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, humankind will have discovered fire.”
–Teilhard de Chardin

  • “Then Mary stood up and greeted them; she tenderly kissed them all and said, ‘Brothers and sisters, do not weep, do not be distressed nor be in doubt. For his grace will be with you sheltering you. Rather we should praise his greatness, for he has united us and made us true Human beings.’ When Mary had said these things, she turned their hearts toward the Good.”

    THE GOSPEL OF MARY (5:4-9)

  • “A certain maiden, Thecla – whose mother was Theocleia and was promised in marriage to a man, Thamyris – sat at a window close to the house and listened night and day to the message about holiness spoken by Paul. She did not turn away from the window, but moved forward in faith, rejoicing exceedingly. And yet having seen many women and maidens coming to Paul, she also desired for herself to be deemed worthy, to stand face-to-face with Paul and hear the word of Christ.”

    THE ACTS OF PAUL AND THECLA (Ch. 7, V. 1-2)

  • “We often think of the end, the happily ever after, as the external union or outward marriage. To be held in love by another is just the start.

    It’s not the end. The culmination is when that trauma or wound has left the body altogether, so we no longer have to.

    This was the ending I wanted. The end when I have found the cabin deep inside my body with a sign on its door that reads, ‘Here anyone can live free.’” (MMR, p.72.)

    THE HANDLESS MAIDEN

  • “What you say, you say in a body; you can say nothing outside this body. You must awaken while in this body, for everything exists in it: Resurrect in this life.”

    THE GOSPEL OF PHILIP

  • “Father, do you see this vase here? Could it be called by any other name than what it is?”

    ‘No,’ he replied.

    ‘Well, neither can I be called anything other than what I am, a Christian.”

    THE PASSION OF SAINT PERPETUA

  • “Jesus said, ‘I am the one who comes from what is undivided.”

    “Jesus said, ‘When you make the two into one, you will become children of Humanity,

    and when you say, ‘Mountain, move from here!’ it will move.”

    THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS

  • “I am the first and the last.
    I am she who is honored and she who is mocked.
    I am the whore and the holy woman
    I am the wife and the virgin…
    I am the bride and the bridegroom…
    I am she, the Lord…
    I am both awareness and obliviousness
    I am humiliation and pride
    I am without shame
    I am ashamed
    I am security and I am fear
    I am war and peace
    Pay attention to me
    I am she who is disgraced and she who is important…
    I am what everyone can hear and no one can say.”

    THE THUNDER: PERFECT MIND

  • “And the women all cried out in a loud voice, as if from one mouth, and gave praise to God, saying, ‘One is God who has saved Thecla!’ so that the whole city shook from their voice.”

    THE ACTS OF PAUL AND THECLA (Ch. 38. V. 5)

  • “I, she said, ‘I saw the Lord in a vision and I said to him, ‘Lord, I saw you today in a vision.’ He answered and said to me, ‘Blessed are you that you did not waver at seeing me. For where the mind is, there is the treasure.’ I said to him, ‘Lord, now, does one who sees the vision see it with the soul or with the spirit?’ The Savior answered and said, ‘One does not see with the soul or with the spirit, but the mind which is between the two sees the vision.”

    THE GOSPEL OF MARY (7: 1-7)

We will email you the scripture for each gathering, but here are optional texts to have with you:

Mary Magdalene Revealed by Meggan Watterson
A New New Testament edited by Hal Taussig
The Gospel of Philip by Jean-Yves Leloup

WHO I AM

I am a feminist theologian with a master of divinity from Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University and a master of theological studies from Harvard Divinity School. I am the author of The Wall Street Journal bestselling book, Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel, & The Christianity We Haven’t Tried Yet. I also recently created THE MARY MAGDALENE ORACLE so we can integrate the secret teachings of Mary’s gospel into a daily spiritual practice. And I am the immensely proud mom of an old soul named Shai, which means “gift” in Aramaic.

WHO WE ARE

We are a spiritual community with a shared desire and curiosity to study the scripture that was not included in the formation of the New Testament in the 4th century, like, The Gospel of Mary, The Acts of Paul and Thecla, The Thunder: Perfect Mind, The Gospel of Thomas, and The Gospel of Philip. These ancient texts emphasize the radical love that exists within each of us, and the “treasure,” or “the spiritual eye of the heart,” as Christ refers to it in Mary’s gospel that we each contain.

We practice the soul-voice meditation together, which allows us to experience directly, or to know, from the Greek word gnosis, this “treasure” within us, so we can practice seeing less with the ego and more from the soul of who we are. And so, we can practice listening, inwardly with less and less judgement, and with only more mercy.

THE RED THREAD

Red because love is the force that renders us all equal. Love is the truth of who we are and the purpose of why we are here. Love is the source of our true power to shift what’s possible within our lives and in the world. And the source of true love is found within.

Red because the body is the soul’s chance to be here.

The body is sacred. The body has wisdom the mind can’t even begin to fathom. The body is a part of (and not separate from) our experience of the divine. Loving the body, fiercely, is a holy revolution.

Red because we are ready for what the alchemists refer to as “the reddening.” This is the third stage in the alchemical process after we’ve owned the dark depths of where we are human, and after we’ve witnessed our own breathtaking light. It’s the spiritual path that unites the lowest lows and the highest heights. It’s the path of integrating the hot mess with the holy soul, the utterly vulnerable with the force within us that is pure strength.

And red because it’s the color associated with Mary Magdalene, and the legacy of the divine feminine. Red because it’s the color of the heart, and the heart is the holiest place on earth. The heart is the mystical space we can enter to meet with our every answer.

The red thread is our reminder that we are all connected. It’s a visual of the vow we have made to do the work that lets us release the ego and return to the heart. And it’s a symbol of the spiritual teachings that are innate to us, that pour out through us each time we dare to become a presence of love.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

Your $13/month tuition includes:

  • One 1.5 hour virtual gathering each month

  • Library of recordings from our past gatherings

  • Optional Facebook group to connect with members from our global community

  • A portion of the House of Mary Magdalene's tuition each month goes to Love 146 – an international organization with a singular mission to end child trafficking through survivor care, prevention, community education, and strategic collaboration. 

HOW IT WORKS

We meet on Zoom the 1st Sunday of each month (OCTOBER 2024 - JUNE 2025) from 3:00pm - 4:30pm Eastern Time.

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You’ll be sent a reminder email with a Zoom link on Friday mornings and Sunday mornings before each Sunday we meet, and the Zoom link will also be posted in the member area on our website.

And you’ll be emailed the recording in case you’re not able to join us in real time.

JOIN OUR COMMUNITY

There is no required reading or any previous meditation experience needed – just an open or willing-to-open heart. If you have questions, please contact us.

$13.00
Every month

  • One 1.5 hour virtual gathering each month

  • Library of recordings from our past gatherings

  • Optional Facebook group

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