Living with Mary Podcast

In a desire for an ever-deepening relationship with Mother Mary, I share from the book Truly Our Sister by Elizabeth Johnson. In particular, I look at the idealization of Mary and the three main roles she was cast in, the handmaiden, the virgin, and the mother, and the detrimental effects this has had on women. I suggest that by liberating Mary - in our minds - from these roles we can liberate ourselves. I also touch upon Johnson's quest for the historical Mary and positioning her in the communion of saints, but invite us to continue discovering Mary for ourselves.
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Bonus to Being with Pain. This is a sweet and powerful channeling of Mother Mary to help you feel Her love, and through this to open your heart to yourself and your love and to truly know that you are one with ALL. You’ll want to be sitting or laying down for this one, as Mary takes you deep, high, and wide into that which She knows your heart truly longs for. So, get ready, kick back and enjoy your time with Mary!

How can Mary bear our suffering? In contrast to my tigress mother instincts of fighting for my young or against cruelty and abuse in the world, Mary bore Jesus’ suffering and death through being there for him in love. She does the same for us. I speak about this, sharing also a story from my recent healing of some very broken pieces of myself. Mary’s ability to transform suffering into love never ceases to astound me!

Here is something super exciting to me: Roman Catholic Women Priests! Not an oxymoron, not a dream, but an actual living God who loves and includes in action! Listen to the episode to learn more :-)
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I start off with a sentence that I don’t celebrate Christmas and end up realizing that I celebrate Christmas all year long! In this episode, I take you to my grandma’s for Christmas and to my husband’s family big, festive Christmas celebrations. I reminisce and inquire how come celebrating Christmas on the 25th of December is not important to me and how I, nevertheless, feel its importance. I end up, where else, but in the arms of Mother Mary who is always guiding me, and all of us, towards more LOVE. Merry Christmas!

“I see the golden light of Christ Consciousness and I rejoice!” – Branka Valcic in It’s Christmas All the Time

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