URL: http://www.speakwithoutinterruption.com/site/2009/07/homily-she-has-always-spoken-to-my-he...

Summary:
A note on Jesus celibacy: I doubt he was interested in marrying and raising children. Though Jesus did have sexual feelings, he was celibate. The love between the two was of the kind that brings a woman, who is friend of Jesus Christ, to wait with his mother Mary at the foot of the Cross. This is the love of a woman. This is a deep, abiding love for the person and divine person of Jesus Christ. This is Holy love.

My sense of Mary is based on her courage, her independence, her willingness to love passionately. One result I admire and believe of this sainted woman, disciple of Christ, is how transformation and redemption, reconciliation and renewal came to this woman of the Bible.

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Tags: Homily, Mary Magdalene, Saint, Holy Woman, Episcopal Church, heart, Christ, Bible