However, new scholarship points toward entirely different layers of meaning hidden within the tired bickering of Mary and Martha. Scholars are questioning just who these sisters were, why Jesus ...

The Martha-and-Mary narrative also challenges us to balance practical action and ... need both contemplation and activity. One of the ironies of modern life is that the very devices that save ...

The Bible does not specify the birth order of siblings Martha, Mary and Lazarus, but I just feel in my bones that Martha was the oldest sister. (It takes one to know one.) Today’s Gospel reading ...

Sunday, July 17, is the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Genesis 18:1-10a; Psalm 15:2-3, 3-4, 5; Colossians 1:24-28; and Luke 10:38-42. Some people, in reading this Gospel about Martha ...

One of the most interesting relationships in the Bible is that of Martha, Mary and Lazarus of Bethany with our Lord. Clearly their relationship was special because it is mentioned in all four of ...

Martha is preoccupied with the myriad of tasks that fell to women of her culture . . . [unlike] her sister Mary who “sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he was saying”. Mary is loving God not ...

“As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to ...

On this day we remember Martha of Bethany, sister of Mary and Lazarus. Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and anyone who ...

Most likely, you are familiar with Mary and Martha. They were sisters. They were believers. And they were as opposite as day and night. We first meet them in Luke ...