Jesus’ gentle rebuke reminds his audience to attend to what’s important-his presence. When most people read this story, they often imagine a harried housewife complaining about her lazy sister. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her” (Luke 10:41-42). Jesus replies: “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things there is need of only one thing. Martha, “distracted by her many tasks,” asks Jesus to tell Mary to help her. Her sister, Mary, sits at Jesus’ feet listening to him. Luke 10:38-42 portrays Jesus visiting the house of Martha (compare John 12:1, which has the meeting take place at the house of Lazarus, who is not mentioned in Luke’s story). Although contemporary understandings of their significance to the early church have been eclipsed by the scholarly preoccupation with Mary Magdalene, they were highly revered by ancient Christians, and their role in the Gospels and beyond is starting to be recognized. The most famous story about them appears in Luke 10:38-42, but they also figure prominently in John 11:1-12:8 and in many postbiblical traditions. Also pray for Cancer victims and their caregivers.Mary and Martha are not frequently mentioned in the New Testament, but their names are well known. PS: Please pray for peace for the people of Ukraine. This goes for perfect strangers and close friends. Loving doesn’t mean you have to like them but help anyone that Jesus puts in front of you to have a relationship with Him and believe that He died for us. The relationship we have with Jesus doesn’t happen in a vacuum. God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him. We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us. Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him and he in God. Moreover, we have seen and testify that the Father sent his Son as savior of the world. This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us, that he has given us of his Spirit. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us. Sure they had a relationship with Jesus but that relationship was not in a vacuum.ġJohn 4:11-16 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another. Emotionally and spiritually my parents and uncle and aunt supported each other in trials and successes. My Aunt (Ciocia) was best friends with my Mom. They had food, conversation, teaching from Jesus. All four were loving one another in this passage from scripture. He loved the relationship He had with others.ġJohn 3:11 For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: we should love one another. We listen to what Jesus says but we also watch what He does. This is only part of the road to salvation. Jesus told her, ” I am the resurrection and the life whoever believes in me even if he dies, will live, and anyone who livesand believes in me will never die. You already have one or you wouldn’t be reading this. Newsflash! Jesus is waiting to have that relation with you and me. I can imagine them playing pranks, but all out of love. Jesus must have enjoyed the meals and conversations. Jesus spent time with them to relax and bask in the loving relationship of good friends. How did Martha, Mary and Lazarus succeed in becoming Saints?įirst of all their family had a relationship with Jesus. I pray first for both physical and emotional generational healing. Part of my morning prayers are to pray for family. The goal in life is to get to heaven, and we have a duty to encourage our loved-ones to do the same. More than half are good faithful practicing Catholics. My mother came from a large Polish family with many brothers and sisters. My sister is divorced as is her daughter, my godchild.Drugs and alcohol have affected others in my extended family. My dad was a divorced man and when he married my mother he converted to Catholicism and was a faithful Catholic until he died. The play itself is more about relationships of family in a changing world. In 1969 on leave from the Army I saw the play” Fiddler on the Roof” with Alfie Bass in London. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who is coming to the world”
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