All Will Be Well, With God’s Help (I Say In A Rosarian, Goddess-worship Way)

(a) Filianic Rosary

For your inspiration, the current version of the rosary prayers I use - Filianic at heart, heavily based on the Catholic ones, quite obviously, with minor adjustments, which happens to work for my practice. In many cases, the wording remained intact due to private philosophical understanding. I hope this example proves useful for those seeking to include this beautiful practice.

In the name of the Source, and the Mother, and the Rose Child. Amen.

Our Mother, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us today our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Love is with Thee. Blessed art Thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us now and in the hour of our death. Amen.

As a rule, I finish with a Hail Holy Queen intact:

Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope. To you do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To you do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears Turn then, most gracious advocate, your eyes of mercy toward us, and after this exile show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.

Come to the Mother as you are, and She shall guide you in Her ways🥀

bye bye 2024

All things flow from [Sophia], arise in Her, embody Her as a wave embodies the ocean… To know Her is to know yourself. To know yourself is to know the world, Her children, as your siblings.

The Divine Feminine in Biblical Wisdom Literature by Rabbi Rami Shapiro

Holy Innana, I come to you as my saviour, my teacher, my guide, and my sister, I open my heart to you, and place my trust in your hands Guide my soul back towards our Mother, allow me to be open to her grace and love Help me to live by your example so I may return to the Perfection of our Blessed Mother Holy Daughter, Pray with me and for me now and through all lives Amadéa

Mohja Kahf, “Most Wanted”, Hagar Poems

Spring, doves & flowers 🌼🕊️

Art by Eugéne Bidau (French, 1839-1899)

Resources on the Divine Feminine in Christianity

These resources provide biblical and historical evidence for the divine feminine in Christianity. I will update as I come across more.

I would like to note that I haven’t read the entirety of all of the books or blogs listed, nor do I necessarily agree with all of the books’ contents; this is simply a compilation for your own perusal. 

Articles

Who is Sophia in the Bible?

The Feminine Imagery of God in the Hebrew Bible

Lady Wisdom - A Divine Feminine Entity

El Shaddai: The God With Breasts

El Shaddai and the Gender of God

Is God A Man?

Is God Both Male and Female?

Female Images of God

Lady Wisdom and the Gender Diverse Community of God

Gender Fluid Jesus is For Real

Jesus’s Vagina: A Medieval Meditation

The Enduring Symbolism of Doves

“Biblical Proofs” for the Feminine Face of God in Scripture

Masterpost: List of academic studies regarding the divine feminine in Christian texts and tradition

Blogs/Communities

Deidre Havrelock

Mother God Experiment

Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox

Sophiawakens

Sophia Inclusive Catholic Community

Ecosophian (Christopagan)

Books

Is It Okay to Call God “Mother”? Considering the Feminine Face of God by Paul R Smith

She who is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse by Elizabeth A. Johnson

Womanist Midrash by Wilda C. Gafney

Not Only a Father by Tim Bulkeley

In Memory of Her by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality by Phyllis Trible

The Divine Feminine by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott

Biblical Affirmations of Woman by Leonard Swidler

Women and the Word by Sandra M. Schneiders

In Search of the Christ-Sophia: An Inclusive Christology for Liberating Christians by Jann Aldredge-Clanton

The Mother of the Lord by Margaret Barker

Our Mother – the Holy Spirit by Marianne Widmalm

Sophia-Maria: A Holistic Vision of Creation By Thomas Schipflinger

She Lives! Sophia Wisdom Works in the World by Jann Aldredge-Clanton

Sophia: Goddess of Wisdom by Caitlin Matthews (Christopagan)

The Woman’s Bible (feminist bible commentary)

Gender and the Nicene Creed by Elizabeth Geitz

God and the Goddesses by Barbara Newman

Wisdom’s Feast: Sophia in Study and Celebration by Susan Cole

Jesus as Mother by Caroline Bynum

Wisdom Has Built Her House: Studies on the Figure of Sophia in the Bible by Silvia Schroer

Embracing the Divine Feminine and The Divine Feminine in Biblical Wisdom Literature by Rabbi Rami Shapiro (a Rabbi exploring Lady Wisdom from both a Jewish and Christian perspective)

Saints/Mystics

Julian of Norwich

Teresa of Avila

Jane Lead

Hildegard of Bingen

Thomas Merton

Jacob Boehme

Hadewijch

Authors

Elizabeth Johnson Jann Aldredge-Clanton Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza Matthew Fox Richard Rohr Joyce Rupp

More Resource Lists

Christian Feminism Today

Relevant Tags of Mine

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In the stable, in the cosmos, on the altars of cathedrals and mud shacks—the spiritual presence of Mary embodies even more than cosmic beneficence and profound unity. In her are merged a poignant array of pathways to the sacred whole. She is the collective soul of many cultures, each seeing in her its deepest roots.

She brings into the present moment from our paleolithic past the unbroken stream of female forms of the Divine. She links the Old World with the New. She is invoked as the patron of seas, springs, and hills. She is called the Queen of Heaven yet dwells in the spiritual sanctuary of every heart attuned to her.

— "Missing Mary," Charlene Spretnak; "Mother of the World" by Nicholas Roerich