{"id":34700,"date":"2017-07-29T11:38:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T15:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34700"},"modified":"2017-07-30T11:49:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T15:49:09","slug":"ss-martha-mary-and-lazarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/07\/ss-martha-mary-and-lazarus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ss Martha, Mary and Lazarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Sts-Mary-Martha-and-Lazarus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34701 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Sts-Mary-Martha-and-Lazarus-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Sts-Mary-Martha-and-Lazarus-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Sts-Mary-Martha-and-Lazarus-768x980.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Sts-Mary-Martha-and-Lazarus-803x1024.jpg 803w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Sts-Mary-Martha-and-Lazarus.jpg 903w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a>Benedictines celebrate today as the memorial of <em>Saints<\/em>\u00a0<i>Mary, Martha and Lazarus- Hosts of the<\/i> Lord. Models <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">par excellence<\/span><\/em> of what the Rule of Saint Benedict says about receiving guests as Christ Himself. Divine revelation, likewise, reveals to us that the Lord\u00a0was received by his friends to tomb of Lazarus, but before this point, he was received by the holy siblings to their home.<i><\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The\u00a0Gospel today shows\u00a0us the house at Bethany after Lazarus has been raised by Jesus. There is a dinner being prepared in the house of his dear friends. Martha is preparing the feast, Lazarus is at table and Mary\u00a0takes a liter of costly perfumed oil\u00a0and anoints Jesus&#8217; feet most tenderly and dries them with her hair.<\/p>\n<p>The Monastic Fathers attest to the fact that this gospel reading begs us all to take up the calling that all three live. A particular witness to this teaching is Saint Bernard who says that each monk (and by extension to the Oblate) must unite in himself &#8220;all three vocations: that of the penitent, the active worker and the contemplative.&#8221; We hear Jesus&#8217; call to come out of the tomb of our sinfulness into the light of his mercy as did Lazarus. Likewise the call is lived when we serve one another in love as Martha. Moreover, we ought to\u00a0attend to Jesus Christ, we listen (a virtue echoed by the Holy Rule) to his words and cherish them in our hearts like Mary. The\u00a0three ways of love can \u00a0lead us to choose the &#8220;better part,&#8221; which Jesus promises shall not be taken from us.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benedictines celebrate today as the memorial of Saints\u00a0Mary, Martha and Lazarus- Hosts of the Lord. Models par excellence of what the Rule of Saint Benedict says about receiving guests as Christ Himself. Divine revelation, likewise, reveals to us that the Lord\u00a0was received by his friends to tomb of Lazarus, but before this point, he was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/07\/ss-martha-mary-and-lazarus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ss Martha, Mary and Lazarus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2153],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34702,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34700\/revisions\/34702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}