The Church recognizes it when she prays: “Lord Jesus, master, Mary listened to your words while Martha served your needs, help us to serve you with love and devotion” (Intercessions, Morning Prayer, the Common of Holy Women, Liturgy of the Hours). No doubt, there is room in our communities for the Marthas and the Marys. Martha, on the other hand, is anxious and worried. It is the better part that Mary has chosen: sitting beside the Lord at his feet, she listens to him speak. He asserts that there is only one thing necessary, which spells genuine intimacy with him. Through an admonition, though tender, given the vocative, “Martha, Martha,” Jesus makes clear, as on other occasions, what he cares about above all.
To esteem them means to teach them with all wisdom and to instruct them affectionately in hurtful truth too. Their sufferings also, along with those of all the people undervalued by the world, fill up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions. He thus gives importance to women who hardly count in a male-dominated society.
He honors the invitation of both the Pharisee Simon and the tax collector Matthew.Īnd he is welcomed into the home of Martha and Mary. But Jesus keeps on valuing every person and having a predilection for the underdog. They accuse him of being a glutton and a drunkard, a friend besides of tax collectors and sinners.
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