Devotion to St. Mary Magdalene
In the sacred stillness, she embodies Mystical France.
St. Mary Magdalene on the shores of Provence is the embodiment of Mystical France in the center of Immaculate Heart of Mary. Mystical France is imbued in the shimmering aura of the combined hearts of St. Joan and St. Thérèse. The glory of God shines through the alethic emergence of Mary Magdalene’s House of New Bethany, filling it with purity, wisdom, and knowledge.
St. Thérèse is our inspiration in this devotion to Mary Magdalene. Thérèse discovered what she called, "a new way," a "little way." This way was "new" but not novel. Thérèse discovered a lighted pathway to our faith that had been always at the core of our teachings. However, she discovered the lines of insight, the softly lit lampposts guiding the way. She brought a meaningful understanding out of the confusion of possibilities in a manner that made it demonstrable and repeatable for all of us. Discovery does not mean novelty. Discovery means bringing up from the depths of our faith a demonstrable meaning modeled along a line of insight.
When united with St. Mary Magdalene in our hearts, she reveals to us Mystical France bathed in the glory of God's love. This light is arrayed over all of the possibilities of our life across our internal horizon. In the brightness of the glory of the crucified Jesus with his Holy Mother Mary, these possibilities fade from view behind the gestalt image of Magdalene and Mystical France. They are now hidden for God alone to transfigure. We focus only on love, repentance, contrition, and fidelity to Christ and his mother. Behind that bright light, we leave it to Our Lord Jesus Christ to transfigure our lives out of the confusion of these possibilities according to his meaning, and he ordains Mary Magdalene as our intermediary. She is our royal Foundress under the universal Queenship of Mary. We fulfill our True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin through Mary Magdalene’s House of New Bethany.
As our foundress and she who is ordained by Jesus Christ for this purpose, St. Mary Magdalene intercedes in the transfiguration of the now hidden possibilities of expression in our lives through a union of hearts with her. This is the principle of abandonment to Divine Providence in imitation of the Magdalen’s abandonment to Our Lord in the grotto of Provence in what we know today as France.
This is our devotion to St. Mary Magdalene.