17/03/2022
We are very happy and grateful that one of our participants is Pascale Léger who will also give us an interesting perspective on Mary Magdalene! Read here for more... 🥰
"Since my childhood, Mary Magdalene has been present in my life as a close and protective companion. In the difficult moments when I feel unworthy, she appears to me as a light in the darkness: if she has been forgiven, she, who has sinned so much, why not me?
The forgiveness that Jesus offers her is like a balm that soothes my suffering and offers me hope for rebirth. As I tend to set the bar very high for myself, I often call upon her and to her gentleness, which does not exclude firmness and assertiveness. I am delighted by her boldness when she interrupts a serious assembly of theologians in discussion with Jesus to shower him with perfume.
Many years later, I discovered another Mary Magdalene, much richer than the richer than the overly conventional image of my childhood, thanks to the books of Jean-Yves Leloup. I was delighted to meet a free woman who did not care about the codes imposed by patriarchal society in which she was a woman.
I am happy to meet a free woman who does not care about the codes imposed by the patriarchal society in which she lives, a woman who assumes her femininity and her beauty and offers them to the astonished world, a woman who goes through all the nuances of love and devotes herself entirely to the One she loves, a woman who shows the way to the Lord of our souls.
I follow in her footsteps and am nourished by her different images and the resonances they provoke in me with other traditions. I love this woman of metamorphoses before whom the sinister empty tomb becomes the matrix of a new day for humanity. She connects me to other women around the world to whom her example speaks and to men who also recognise themselves in her journey and allow their feminine to blossom to gain in humanity and inner beauty."
Pascale Léger has been a teacher of French, Latin and Greek. She is now a lecturer and teacher of yoga, meditation and ayurveda. As Orthodox Christian, she has been passionate about Asia since childhood and travels there regularly, particularly to India. She draws from this country and other traditions a spiritual nourishment that she is keen to share. She is an orthodox lecturer, passionate about Asia since her childhood, where she travels regularly regularly, especially to India. She draws from this country as well as from other traditions.
