Posted on 05/30/2022 4:51:46 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Thank you.
(Hint: it’s not there!)
I can imagine drunk women’s rooms being the WORST!
Such is not stated, in terms, in the New Testament.
Nevertheless I can cite a Pope on the matter.
No question that Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen was convinced that Mary Magdelene’s manifold sins involved those of the flesh.
Maria Valtorta’s visions are utterly fascinating on this topic.
Many of the chapters of her Poem of the Man God feature, directly or indirectly, Mary the Magdelene, she (Magdelene) being the wealthy and progligate sister of similarly wealthy (because she inherited her wealth from the same father) Lazarus and Martha of Bethany, she (Mary) being the unnamed “woman” who, convicted of her sins, bathed Jesus’ feet with her tears in the home of the shocked and dismayed Simon the Pharisee (thereby being purged of her possession and being forgiven of her sins), and further, she (Mary) whose later acts in breaking open an alabaster jar full of precious spikenard and embalming the body of Jesus with precious mere days before his death drew such hypocritical criticism and contumely from the money-pouch carrier, and thief, Judas of Kerioth.
Please see my #24.
Yes, all that stuff has been said by various sources other than the Bible.
So, the Apostles and brothers of Jesus chose not to divulge this secret, but female spiritualists and men hundreds of years later suddenly had this secret revealed to them.
The ire of Simon and Judas are useless to base anything on, since both of them had their own much deeper and more heinous sins to cover, and being children of the devil, only lies come from their mouths.
And you quote a banal poem by a bedridden women desperate for attention and notoriety, being condemned by most of the Catholic Hierarchy at the time for spurious content.
Sounds like some kind of attack on Mary of Magdala to strengthen the idea that women are to blame for the mess we are in (i.e. it’s Eves fault). Adam was the one who decided, the curse was not brought until Adam bit the apple, and men have been blaming women for their sins as long as Adam has been blaming Eve.
SMH, because you’re likely right, and everyone now has to be a judge of character of those that were living in the past.and of course, every one was a sinner.
I believe Abraham Lincoln was racist, Even if he ‘freed the slaves’.
Just as much as i believe Bill Clinton was a loving husband, at one time.
“What’s the floor in front of the toilets in the ladie’s room look like?”
Surely that’s changing now that penis-encumbered ladies visit the commode?
Sorry. I need to work on that.
I don’t know what the floor looks like in the women’s restroom, but while out hunting I have frequently encountered nearly flawless cursive writing and or detailed pictures in the snow by talented but unknown penile artists that no woman could possibly reproduce.
Your point, please.
Suit yourself:
St. Mary Magdalene’s feast day is July 22. She is the patroness of converts, repentant sinners, sexual temptation, pharmacists, tanners and women, and many other places and causes.
The Gospels say that Mary Magdalene was freed from seven demons, and they relate her financial support of Jesus, her attendance at the Crucifixion, and her encounter with Jesus following the Resurrection.
Everything else that is said about her is extra-Biblical, including beliefs that conflate her with Mary of Bethany or identify her with “the woman of the city who was a sinner.”
That’s my whole point: the statement of these facts.
if something is “extra-biblical”
does that mean it is not a fact
trying to grasp your theory here
You are correct. Just because something is not in the Bible, that does not mean it is not accurate. Many things not in the Bible are true, including thing about people who are in the Bible.
I don’t have a theory. I am making fact statements.
Valtorta’s writings comprising the 600-plus chapters of her Poem of the Man-God have been “read into” the YouTube “record” by a handful of individuals, most notably, IMHO, by a science teacher named Mario Bozzi.
Search YouTube with “Bozzi Valtorta Magdala” or “Bozzi Valtorta Mary Magdalene” or similar ways to begin identifying and listening to the many chapters Bozzi reads that include accounts of Mary Magdalene.
Other individuals such as Zacchie Sea have produced wothwhile readings of Valtorta on YouTube, by Mario Bozzi does a very good job of bringing all of the characters out and distinguishing their voices, one from the other, from the other (there are obviously a multitude of characters).
In Valtorta’s work, the edifying story, really an absolutely riveting one, of Mary Magdalene’s conversion and perfect, irreversible conviction with respect to the the new way and life of Christ, and in Christ, begins with Christ Jesus seeking out and meeting her brother Lazarus in the latter’s palatial estate adjacent to Bethany near Jerusalem, and concludes with the Magdalene seeking out and visiting Christ’s mother Mary, the Blessed Mother graciously receiving her in private, the two joining Christ Jesus and Peter in a heavy rainstorm that rolled in from the Sea of Galilee, and Jesus later that day unequivocally signaling, both verbally and in other ways, to Peter and the other disciples there assembled, that the astonishing thing that they were seeing, namely, a budding mother-daughter-type relationship apparently arising between his sinless mother on the one hand, and the orphaned Magdalene, long publicly known for her sexually lustful lifestyle, on the other, was entirely appropriate, was good, and was to be accepted without question going forward. A simple but exceptionally intuitive boy, previously found and adopted by Jesus and the disciples, who earlier had instantaneously and instinctively recognized, among all of the disciples, the perfideous and evil nature of Judas of Kerioth, much to the latter’s consternation and embarassment, just as swiftly has the completely opposite reaction to the presence of the Magdalene, sweetly and naturally recognizing her conversion as real, thoroughgoing, and complete, thus instantly confirming Jesus’ words, and unexpectedly validating the Magdalene’s new status as a radically reformed sinner and, as history would later reflect and make clear, a penitential figure of the highest order (whose value to the One True Faith, I would add, will probably never be fully broadly appreciated until the day of the General Judgment).
Here is the Chapter in which Jesus is decribed as meeting Lazarus in Bethany:
84.1 Jesus Meets Lazarus at Bethany
Massimo Bozzi
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hrOYAyTZjmE&list=PL6MqcyrrCZGto6Na19a79sTOIFwq3Q5bI&index=88
(Sorry—It’s obviously Massimo Bozzi, not Mario Bozzi, my mistake)
Interesting, thanks. One of my church friends has been reading the Valtorta books. We have them in our church library.
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