29/07/2022

I remember Martha mostly for her complaint about her sister not doing her share of the housework and just sitting. She wasn't just "sitting" she was listening to the words of Jesus and Jesus rejects the complaint for being with God is the very best we can do in this world and in the next where we will enjoy our humanity perfected by the incarnate Son. I don't remember being aware of her profession of Faith before today. 

Jeremiah warns us by his words to his contemporaries which are still true today even though we have had the grace of the presence of God with us in the flesh and sacramentally for more than 2000 years.There has got to be an end to the misuse of human freedom which is the characteristic of my generation in this world. Even in our churches words and deeds are directed against the revelations to the Old Tesatment prophets and against Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 

Martha was rebuked by Jesus but in her lifetime she would witness the restoration of life to her dead brother, the triumph of Palm Sunday and the torture and death of her Rabi. Most of all she, who already believed in the final judgement of God, would see the "first fruits of the resurrrecton" and after the death on Calvary would be able to greet the risen Lord. 

There were many others in Palestine who witnessed the birth of the Church. Am I one amongst the many who will witness its complete collapse?

Dear Lord, let me this day live without sin and know that the busyness of life has a better part. Let the Holy Spirit fill the hearts of those who have chosen to spend their time on earth in prayer and meditation so that they can hold onto the path of holiness for which they have been chosen. May Mary join with the prayers of Martha and the other saints to have the scandals that are littering the Way, the Truth and the Life revealed by the words and deeds of Jesus removed so that we the bewildered and suffering little ones can be well supported in this life and find the infinity of Love that is Life after death.