The Mother Goddess Cares for Creation
c . J. P. Mahon, 2013

We could go just about anywhere with today’s readings. The reading from Genesis is the beginning of a poignant tales about the patriarch Joseph and his family. I picture Joseph as a little nerd who throws his dreams and importance into the faces of his siblings. Of course, he is his father’s favorite and has a bright multi-colored cloak to draw further attention to himself. Enter sibling rivalry and jealousy. The meanest among the brothers want to murder him thus continuing the Cain-Abel pattern—destroy those whom you do not like. Since we will see more of this saga as it unfolds into Egypt, we will leave it at this time.

There are two levels in the parable of the unjust stewards. Obviously, Jesus is warning the Pharisees and other leaders that they will lose their dibs on the kin-dom if they persist in killing prophets—a grim prediction of his own murder at their hands. This is the first and obvious meaning. We always kill the prophets and the poets—as Merton said—because they speak the truth we do not wish to hear. Away with them. They shall not discomfort us. We are comfortable with the status quo in our cozy empire!

Reading Andrew Harvey’s The Return of the Mother and Virgil Elizando’s Guadalupe: Mother of the New Creation, I see another level to the story. In patriarchal societies, we kill the Mother Goddess or, at least, relegate her to inferior status in the divine pantheon. The Continue reading →