XVI SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

SITTING AT THE FEET OF THE LORD. Luke 10:18-42

What Luke emphasizes emphatically is the attitude of listening to Jesus, to the Master, who has the most important thing to communicate. Jesus did not mean that “one dish is enough,” as some have understood, but that Mary was choosing the best at that moment that He visits them. This episode, still today, suggests to us the importance of listening to the Word of God, to the Gospel, as the alternative possibility to so many things that are said, proposed and done in this world. Jesus is the prophetic, critical, radical Word that reaches the depths of the heart, to enlighten and liberate.

Marta is performing a service, but she has to know how to choose. Mary feels like an authentic disciple of Jesus and begins to listen as the only important thing at that moment. And that is what it is all about, that now in which God, the Lord, passes by our side, through our lives, and we have to get used to choosing what is most important: listening to him, welcoming him in what He has to say, leaving other things for other times.