A place of Divine Presence that Jesus called Abide. A place the mystics named union. A place Mary Magdalene lived from — with clarity, courage, and profound love.

Today we open a path that is ancient and yet deeply needed for this moment in time — the path of inner transformation through the life and witness of Mary Magdalene.

For too long, Mary has been misunderstood — reduced to labels that never belonged to her. 

But the early Church, the desert mothers and fathers, and the mystical tradition remembered differently. 

They saw in Mary not a story of shame, but a story of awakening. Not “seven demons,” but seven powers — seven awakenings, seven healings, seven thresholds of liberation that prepared her to stand in the fullness of who she was called to be.

Mary Magdalene did not become whole by escaping her humanity —
but by journeying through it,
loving through it,
trusting the sacred heartbeat of God within it.

She walked a path of transformation that mirrors our own:
the path from wound to wisdom,
from fear to devotion,
from silence to sacred voice,
from clinging to releasing,
from self-doubt to standing as witness to the Risen Light.

And as we explore her path, we also trace the contours of Jesus’ own mystical teaching — what we call the Eight Mystical Steps: the inner journey from awakening, to surrender, to union with the Heart of Love which I have shared previously.

Mary’s story shows us that transformation is not punishment, but invitation.
Not perfection, but alignment.
Not striving, but remembering.

To follow this path is to learn to see as Mary saw —
with the eyes of the heart,
with the breath of compassion,
with the deep knowing that the Divine is not distant but here, and here, and here.

So today, as we begin, let us soften.
Let us breathe into the quiet centre.
Let us remember that we do not walk alone.

The same Love that called Mary by name calls you by name.
The same Spirit that awakened her power awakens yours.
And the same Christ who met her in the garden meets us now — in this Still Point, in this breath, in this sacred moment of turning toward wholeness.

Welcome to the Path.
Welcome home.