The saints we celebrate today had that opportunity. We know that Jesus encounters Mary, Martha and Lazarus on at least three occasions during his ministry. Once when Jesus reminded Martha about ...

Good Martha, all bustle and industry, is just setting down a woven basket containing a perfect round loaf of golden bread in front of Jesus. Sitting at Jesus's feet, sister Mary is a picture of ...

Martha opens her home to Jesus and his disciples. Obviously there would be a lot to do in order to provide for them. So Martha gets to work to serve her guests. Mary, on the other hand ...

Over the centuries, the story of Jesus in the house of Mary and Martha (Luke 10:38-42) was often misinterpreted as exalting the life of spiritual contemplation and minimizing a life of action.

Today’s Gospel reading is a well-known lesson in priorities. When Jesus comes to visit their village, sisters Martha and Mary welcome him in opposite ways. Martha, ever dutiful, has taken on the ...

This Sunday’s Gospel tells us about Jesus and his visit with two very different women. Mary and Martha are sisters, siblings of Lazarus. They lived in Bethany, which we might say today is on the ...

We need to be both Mary and Martha. This is an excerpt from “Come Forth: the Promise of Jesus’s Greatest Miracle, a new book on the Raising of Lazarus,” by James Martin, S.J., now available ...

There is biblical precedent for that instinct and posture in the account of Jesus’ visit to the home of two sisters, Mary and Martha. Martha offers immediate hospitality, welcoming Jesus and then ...

The story found in Luke 10 of Martha and Mary—where Martha is doing service and Mary is sitting at Jesus’ feet and Martha complains—is a different story by a different gospel author. So many women ...

Yet no less important is her sister Martha, who—for all her interest in kitchen matters—recognized even before Mary that Jesus was the promised Messiah. Here is a charge to engage theology ...

Saint Joanna ran away from Chuza and off with Jesus group Chuza was an official in the court of Herod Antipas) above). On the first sarcophagus, Mary (right) and Martha are bareheaded and normal ...