The Beatific Communion
Christ is not Jesus’s last name—it’s a powerful truth often overlooked. Christ means “the anointed one.” This anointing, not done in grand ceremony, but by an unidentified woman with a jar of precious perfume at a private dinner, sealed him with the unction of love.
Mary Magdalene's role as Jesus’s anointer offers a profound insight into the Passion—a tale of substituted love. It gives us a ritual, a pathway to singleness and restoration to fullness of being. Embracing Mary's wisdom means rediscovering the ritual of anointing, understanding it as an act of conscious love marking a passage to physical and spiritual wholeness.
Her passion transformed her into one of the initiated. In The Cloud of Unknowing, it's recognized that her love was the key. When Jesus forgave her sins, it wasn’t just her sorrow or meekness—it was her profound love.
Mary didn’t just weep for her sins; she yearned for love. She learned to love deeply, even without clear understanding or sight of His physical form. Immersed in the love of His Godhead, she hardly saw the details, but felt His presence with intense love.
This is the path—to love deeply, to be anointed with love, to seek wholeness through conscious acts of love. Mary's story teaches us that in the depths of love, there is forgiveness, unity, and the beatific communion we all seek.
Embrace the anointing of love, for it is through love that we find wholeness and communion. Mary Magdalene's story teaches us that in the depths of love, there is forgiveness, unity, and the beatific communion we all seek.