The Real Mary Magdalene

The position of Mary Magdalene is one that has got a lot of attention in recent days. That controversy has been fueled by the best selling novel the DaVinci code” and that controversy is only set to grow as the movie version is being launched of May 19.
The DaVinci code book has been a best selling phenomenon. It was first published in 2003 and it is estimated that to date it has sold in excess of 40 million copies in the world. It is thought that the author Dan Brown has made more than £200 million from it. Part of Brown's thesis is that Christendom particularly in the guise of the Church of Rome and its secret organizations such as Opus Dei have conspired to keep the real truth about Mary Magdalene and her marriage to Jesus hidden. They say that the institutional Church has really undermined the prominence that Mary Magdalene actually had. However Scripture does not hesitate to give Mary Magdalene a leading role where she had one. Scripture does not give her the role Dan Browns says she had for that is fiction but rather than relegating her to the sidelines as Brown alleges it is noticeable that at the Resurrection which is at the very centre of our Christianity Mary is there. But she is there as a picture of those who have lost a sense of the presence of Christ and who need to find Him. If you like Mary at the tomb have missed the blessed presence of the Lord in your life then come like Mary to find Him. This is her real story.