Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter

Shawn, grace and peace! There is ample proof that Mary Magdalene was far more important than Peter! There has always been misogynism where the Roman Church is concerned; in fact, there is indisputable evidence that in a second century bapistry in Ephesus, that on that pool’s bottom, as well as in various frescoes, we have clear and distinct murals of women priests, including Bishops, celebrating the Eucharist! We also know now, through patient scholarship and ancient pseudepigrapha, Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute; she was a rich widow in Magdala, who actually was married to Jesus, and bore him at least three children, the daughter of which became the genesis of the Merovingian Dynasty in France! It would have been beyond reason for Mary Magdalene to sit shiva for Jesus unless she was married to him! Unfortunately, the Roman Church turned Jesus into more or less a desert Eremite, making him otherworldly from the Councils of Nicaea to Chalcedon! And, to bring things into a more clearer light, the Roman Church with its associated papacy, did not begin until the fourth century, and Peter could not have been the First Pope, because historically we can prove that Peter may have never actually visited Rome, or may have been there very shortly against his will! It is also interesting from a scholarly point of view that the current Canonical New Testament Scriptures have an entire Pauline corpus of Epistles, whereas, the two Epistles attributed to St. Peter are of quite dubious authorship! If anything, Paul would have been a much better Pope than Peter; Peter was neither a brilliant writer nor was he a wise diplomat, as evidenced by his dogged insistence to make a Christian a Jew! In God’s Grace and Love, Your Grace, The Metropolitan Archbishop Reverend Doctor Richard L. Sorrentino