Unity of life


It is very possible that Martha, faced with the urgency and increase of domestic work, paid more attention and was more concerned about her chores than about the Lord Himself. Moreover, it seems as if Mary, sitting at the feet of Jesus, took away his peace. Therefore, she stood before him and said: Lord, do you not care that my sister leaves me alone to do the work of the house? Tell her to help me. We can easily imagine the Master addressing to her this affectionate counter-convention: Martha, Martha, you are worried and restless about many things. Truly only one thing is necessary. Only one is necessary: love of God, personal holiness. When Christ is the goal of our life twenty-four hours a day, we work more and better. This is the strong thread - as in a necklace of fine pearls - that unites all the works of the day; thus we avoid the double life: one for God and another dedicated to tasks in the midst of the world: to business, to politics, to rest


In the existence of the Christian, Pope John Paul II teaches, "there cannot be two parallel lives: on the one hand, the so-called spiritual life, with its values and demands; and on the other, the so-called secular life, that is, the life of the family, of work, of social relations, of political commitment and of culture. The branch rooted in the vine that is Christ bears fruit in every sector of its activity and existence. In fact, all the various fields of lay life enter into the plan of God, who wants them to be the historical place of the revelation and realization of the charity of Jesus Christ for the glory of the Father and the service of the brethren. Every activity, every situation, every concrete effort-such as professional competence and solidarity at work, love and dedication to the family and to the education of children, social and political service, and the proposal of truth in the field of culture-are providential occasions for "a continuous exercise of faith, hope, and charity" (Apostolicam actuositatem, 4).


Daily events, the intensity of work, fatigue, and relationships with others are circumstances that arise in order to exercise not only human virtues, but also supernatural ones. We have Jesus very close to us, like Martha. He accompanies us at home, in the office, in the laboratory, when we go on the street. Let us not fail to refer to Him everything that happens throughout the day. Because then, fully engaged in the different tasks that occupy us during the whole day, we will know how to say, with the words of a Psalm that today is prayed in the Liturgy of the Hours: How much I love your will! all day long I am meditating it; your command makes me wiser than my enemies, it always accompanies me; I am more learned than all my teachers because I meditate your precepts


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