Martha
ou, Martha, if
I may say so, are blessed for your good service, and for your labors you
seek the reward of peace. Now you are much occupied in nourishing the body,
admittedly a holy one. But when you come to the heavenly homeland will
you find a traveler to welcome, someone hungry to feed, or thirsty to whom
you may give drink, someone ill whom you could visit, or quarreling whom
you could reconcile, or dead whom you could bury?
No, there will be none of these tasks there. What you will find there
is what Mary chose. There we shall not feed others, we ourselves shall
be fed. Thus what Mary chose in this life will be realized there in all
its fullness; she was gathering fragments from that rich banquet, the Word
of God. Do you wish to know what we will have there? The Lord himself tells
us when he says of his servants, Amen, I say to you, he will make them
recline and passing he will serve them.
From John E. Rotelle, O.S.A., Tradition Day by Day: Readings from
Church Writers. Augustinian Press. Villanova, PA, 1994.
HTML text prepared by David P. Steelman.
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