Tuesday of the 27th
Week in Ordinary Time
October 6, 2015 8:30am Middle School
Four eighth-graders (2 boys and 2
girls) were asked to respond to the following questions. They had two days to prepare for this.
1.
What does the gospel story about Martha and Mary mean
to you?
What point is it
making? What is it teaching us?
2.
What question do you want to ask me about this? What do you not understand in this?
The ideas I want to convey to the
kids are these:
You must pray or else there will
no basis or foundation for your life.
Besides personal prayer, Sunday
Mass is essential. It gives us the solid
foundation we need for life – for making decisions, for knowing what is right
or wrong, for getting through tough times.
It’s like building a house. You’ve got to put in the foundation first and
it must be strong and deep enough or else the house will fall over.
This is why Jesus says that Mary
has chosen the better part. It is not
that praying always is better than doing things. It is that our everyday lives or what we do
must first be grounded in prayer or in our relationship with God and that is
the problem with Martha in the passage.
