Mother Mary: Her Later Years
After the forty-day period during which Jesus appeared to the apostles and holy women in the upper room, Mary gathered the inner circle of devotees who had prepared themselves for the mysteries of initiation.
They met often to receive her instruction and the teaching and word of Jesus Christ. With the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, this community became the body of God on earth, and their consecration formed the foundation of the Christian Church.
Mary was the acknowledged head of that community of lightbearers — the center of the circle of apostles, disciples and holy women.
She was the true fountainhead of Christic energies flowing throughout the Holy Land, the Mediterranean and Asia Minor.
From her heart, concentric rings of fire, the fire of the Holy Ghost, moved outward as the ever-widening embrace of the Father-Mother holding all humanity in the geometry of love.
Mary is believed to have spent her last years in Jerusalem, making her transition around the year 48.
Local tradition holds that John took her to Ephesus for a time to escape persecution in Jerusalem.
The strongest evidence points back to the Cenacle, the upper room of the Last Supper where the apostles gathered after Jesus' departure.
The book of Acts records the apostles continuing together in prayer with the women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
The Mother of the early Church kept the flame of the Mother on behalf of earth's evolutions on Mount Zion, in a house overlooking the city, the temple, the Cedron Valley and the Mount of Olives.
In that upper chamber — which became the gathering place of the disciples and the site of the first Christian church — Mary served the Logos during her final years of glory.
Christians honor this place today in memory of the dormition, the "falling asleep," of the Blessed Mother.
We can call to Mother Mary to help us build the same devotion and unity she inspired in the early Church.
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