Sunday, July 21, 2019, is the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C). Mass readings: Genesis 18:1-10A; Psalm 15:2-3, 3-4, 5; Colossians 1:24-28; Luke 10:38-42. Today’s readings remind us of the ...

“Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me.” The Lord said to her in reply, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things.

“You are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing” (Luke 10:41). Hospitality appears at first to be the lesson in both the story of Abraham and his guests (Gen 18:1-10) ...

"Now as they went on their way, he entered a village; and a woman named Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching.

Many of us have been blessed to have brothers and sisters. Siblings are a gift from God. We have grown up with them in our families. We share the same parents. It is always amusing to share memories ...

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 ...

How often are you gripped by anxiety? How often are you stressed out instead of experiencing contentment that comes from the Lord? You are in good company with a woman in the Bible named Martha. In ...

Are you more like Martha or Mary? Explore the balance between service and devotion through the story of Jesus's visit to Bethany and learn how to cultivate a deeper relationship with Him. Jesus would ...

Martha, Mary and Lazarus are some of my favorite people in the Gospels. As someone who’s always kept a tight circle of friends with very distinct personalities, I love that Jesus has a similar circle, ...

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Alabama had a song years ago that reminds me of a story from Jesus life. The song says, “I’m in a hurry to get things done, oh I rush and rush until life’s no fun. All I really gotta do is live and ...

Elizabeth Schrader Polczer is assistant professor of New Testament at Villanova University. Her research focuses on textual criticism, Mary Magdalene, and the Gospel of John. Hear the full version of ...