{"id":10539,"date":"2015-07-29T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/?p=10539"},"modified":"2015-07-29T06:25:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T05:25:58","slug":"ss-martha-mary-and-lazarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2015\/07\/ss-martha-mary-and-lazarus\/","title":{"rendered":"SS. Martha, Mary, and Lazarus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Raising-Lazarus-Martha-and-Mary-Hunterian-Psalter\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Invitatory
\n<\/strong>The God who conversed with men: * O come, let us adore.<\/p>\n

Hymn<\/strong>, Redditum luci, Dominus vocante<\/em><\/p>\n

Sing of the first fruits of the Resurrection,
\nHow from the dark tomb, into light returning,
\nLazarus came forth at the word of Jesus;
\nSing! Death is vanquished!<\/p>\n

Say with those sisters, very faith expressing,
\nLord, hadst thou been here, this had not befallen!
\nLike them we know, Lord, that no ill can harm us
\nWhen thou art with us.<\/p>\n

Be with us, Jesu, thou our life eternal!
\nGuest most desired, come and dwell within us;
\nThou who didst shed tears at thy friend’s departure
\nFrom us depart not! Amen.<\/p>\n

From a Sermon by St Augustine, Bishop & Doctor of the Church<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 Martha welcomed him as travellers are welcomed.\u00a0 But in her case, the maidservant received her Lord, the invalid her Saviour, the creature her Creator, to serve him bodily food while she was to be fed by the Spirit.\u00a0 For the Lord willed to put on the form of a slave, and under this form to be fed by his own servants, out of condescension and not out of need. For this was indeed condescension, to present himself to be fed; since he was in the flesh he would indeed be hungry and thirsty.
\nThus was the Lord received as a guest who \u201ccame unto his own and his own received him not; but as many as received him, he gave them the power to become sons of God\u201d, adopting those who were servants and making them his brothers, ransoming the captives and making them his co-heirs.\u00a0 No one of you should say: \u201cBlessed are they who have deserved to receive Christ into their homes!\u201d\u00a0 Do not grieve or complain that you were born in a time when you can no longer see God in the flesh.\u00a0 He did not in fact take this privilege from you. As he says: \u201cWhatever you have done to the least of my brothers, you did it to me.\u201d
\nBut thou, O Martha, if I may say so, art blessed for thy good service, and for thy labours thou seekest the reward of peace.\u00a0 Now thou art much occupied in nourishing the body, admittedly a holy one.\u00a0 But when thou comest to the heavenly homeland wilt thou find a traveller to welcome, someone hungry to feed, or thirsty to whom thou mayest give drink, someone ill whom thou couldst visit, or quarrelling whom thou couldst reconcile, or dead whom thou couldst bury?\u00a0 No, there will be none of these tasks there.\u00a0 What thou wilt find there is that which Mary chose.\u00a0 There we shall not feed others, we ourselves shall be fed.\u00a0 Thus what Mary chose in this life will be realised there in all its fullness; she was gathering fragments from that rich banquet, the Word of God.\u00a0 Wilt thou know what we are to have there?\u00a0 The Lord himself tells us when he says of his servants, \u201cAmen, I say to you, he will make them recline and passing he will serve them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Responsory.<\/strong>\u00a0 If any one love me, || he will keep my word, and * My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and \u2020 We will make our abode with him.\u00a0 V. Wisdom protecteth them that seek after her, and he that loveth her, loveth life. * My Father \u2026 Glory be \u2026 \u2020 We will \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Invitatory The God who conversed with men: * O come, let us adore. Hymn, Redditum luci, Dominus vocante Sing of the first fruits of the Resurrection, How from the dark tomb, into light returning, Lazarus came forth at the word of Jesus; Sing! Death is vanquished! Say with those sisters, very faith expressing, Lord, hadst <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florilegium-patristicum","category-liturgical-texts","category-saints"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-2JZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10550,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions\/10550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}