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Jane Hiatt's avatar

I can’t believe I never realized this. Talk about hidden in plain sight. Ritual erasure. I was raised Catholic and was educated mostly in Catholic schools. We did not read the Bible. We listened to selected readings on Sunday and sermons based on them, readings chosen by a liturgical calendar, not by what had inspired the priest that week.

I went on to join the convent. If there was ever a place that would have been useful to explore Magdalene’s message, that would have been it, but no mention was ever made.

I’m reeling as I imagine the story dramatized through the ages if it had left her in and given her the prime place that was always hers. How history would have changed.

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V Baldwin's avatar

Woman erased by patriarchy. Same old same old.

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