Cancelled

Last week in the bulletin for the St. Augustine Church which is the Catholic Student Center for the University of Florida.

MAGDALENE PLAY AT ST. AUGUSTINE!!
St. Augustine is pleased to sponsor a very special theater presentation on the first Friday of Lent, February 8, 2008.  This will be an original play providing a perspective on Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection as seen through the eyes of Mary Magdalene.  In the play, an angel appears to tell Mary Magdalene her life on earth is near its end, and she offers her reflections on what she has come to know of Jesus and the early Christian community.  It is a one-woman production by Thelma Ann Jones who has traveled across the United States and Europe.  Read more about the production on the bulletin board across from the office.  Tickets are on sale in the parish office for $5.00 per person.  This will be one night only, and promises to be a unique way to begin our Lenten season!  Buy your tickets now!  Child care will be provided in the main nursery.

This week this blog reports that in the bulletin is a notice from my bishop Victor Galeone.

Bishop Galeone has decided that the Magdelene Play … should be canceled. In his opinion, certain lines of the monologue call into question the Church’s position on two sacraments. Accordingly, such a performance in a Catholic setting would be a counter-witness to important Church teaching.

I don't know what exactly what was in the script since there is really no information available about this play, but you can probably guess since the hosting parish is not exactly known for orthodoxy and their celebration on the feast day of St. Mary Magdelene is a hotbed of women's ordination supporters.  Regardless thanks to Bishop Galeone for stepping in.