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XVI Sunday of the year Year C Lk 10:38-42 “While Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem a lady received him in her house”. We know that family from another passage of the gospel. This is the house of Lazarus and his two sisters Martha and Mary. Surely they were good friends of Jesus, at least from the way they talk to him we see that they have a friendly relationship. Usually at the time of Jesus the man was the owner of the house, he could invite people or not, he was in charge of staying with the guest talk to him while the women were in charge to prepare water to wash and food and drink. Here we have Martha who seems to be very strong, active and good, she is the one who invites Jesus and then she goes to work and no doubt she was preparing the best possible food for a good friend like Jesus. So she is right in asking that Mary should be there to work with her in the kitchen and let Lazarus do the job of staying with Jesus. I think we all sometimes have sympatized for Mart...

7 words for 7 days The seven words of Christ from the Cross. 7 ) All is accomplished. All is accomplished, accomplished not ended. All has now reached its fulfillment. The plan of mercy and salvation prepared by God now has reached its aim. The suffering of Christ has bor n e fruits. The gate of heaven is open wide. Now a deep silence has fallen upon earth. On one side the silence of the unbelievers who do not know what to said in front of tragedies; on the other side the silence of the believers who have found now the answer to those tragedies but an answer which does not need words but adoration. Now they put Jesus in the tomb. He enters the womb of the earth and to close the arc of life. He entered life passing through the womb of his mother and now exits it passing through the womb of earth. As he blessed the first with its birth so he blesses this with his resurrection because nobody enters a womb to remain there but only to form himself and pass to a new life. The s...