happy feast day of st. martha!

Johannes (Jan) Vermeer

Christ in the House of Martha and Mary

1654

NG 1670

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thank you, elena, for reminding me :)

today is the feast day of my patron saint, Saint Martha. for some who are unaware, my blog used to be called "martha, martha" - i changed it for the sake of doing away with some of the worrying that my patroness used to do, but with some of the events as of late, i am certainly wondering if that was the wisest decision i could ever have made? (enter *worrying*)

back to martha:

Martha and Mary were sisters, related not only by blood but also by religious aspirations. They stayed close to our Lord and both served him harmoniously when he was among them. Martha welcomed him as travelers are welcomed. But in her case, the maidservant received her Lord, the creature her Creator, to serve him bodily food while she was to be fed by the Spirit.

No one of you should say, "Blessed are they who have deserved to receive Christ into their homes!" Do not grieve or complain that you were born in a time when you can no longer see God in the flesh. He did not in fact take this privilege from you. As he says, "Whatever you have done to the least of my brothers, you did to me."

- from a sermon by Saint Augustine

that's my girl :)

as an aside, the one link above from fisheaters states at the outset that she was the sister of Mary Magdalen -- ::huh:: ?? -- was it not Mary of Bethany? anyone? anyone?