The Feast of St. Martha: July 29th is the feast of St. Martha of Bethany about whom we heard in the gospel last Sunday’s gospel. Martha, Mary, and Lazarus were friends and followers of Jesus who often offered hospitality to Jesus and his disciples when they traveling from Galilee to visit Jerusalem during the annual Jewish feasts. Martha is certainly the patron saint of any of us who find ourselves tasked with the cleaning, arranging, cooking, grilling and serving in order to be hospitable to guests. As we heard last Sunday, Jesus didn’t readily side with Martha in her complaint about Mary sitting down to listen to him rather than help in the kitchen, however, in another gospel passage he asks the question “who is greater, the one who sits at the table or the one who must serve? Jesus then identifies himself with those who serve and asks all who follow him to willingly and generously take the same role. So whenever we are working at the stove, the grill the sink, etc., preparing for guests or cleaning up after them – let us remember we are following in some wonderful footsteps those not only of Martha but also of Jesus himself.
Mark Your Calendars Please:
August 15th – Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Masses at 4 PM on August 14th, and at 8:30 AM and 5:30 PM on the Holy Day itself. The collection taken up at these Masses will benefit the Matthew 25 Fund which enables the Parish to operate a Food Pantry which is staffed by many volunteers and managed by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. The Matthew 25 Fund will also be the beneficiary of the funds raised by The Christ the King Annual Golf Tournament which will be held on September 9th at the Willowbend Country Club, Mashpee. Sponsorship forms and Team Sign- up Forms are available at the entrances of the Church or through the parish office. There are many good reasons for golf but none better than golfing for good. The good in this instance is supporting the Parish Food Pantry which feeds hundreds each week but which costs thousands to operate throughout the year. The Annual Golf Tournament is the major fundraiser to support this charity and other good works on behalf of the needy in this local area carried out by the Knights of Columbus and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul; So please sign up to sponsor or to play for good!
August 15th –7 PM: Summer Speaker Series: Keaton Douglas will discuss addiction as a spiritual malady and spirituality as a healing force to liberate any who are trapped in its web. Certainly, there are few of us who haven’t been touched by addiction in some form or another, so this talk is relevant and thus should be of interest to all of us.
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