Reading and meditation on the Word of God on Tuesday of the twenty-seventh week in ordinary time, October 6, 2026.
The theme for our meditation today is: To Welcome and To Choose. In a family, a community or an organization, uniformity and generalization are not always good and usefull for all the members. We should commit ourselves to respect the principle we all believe in, which is every human person is unique, even among the twin. When uniformity reigns, uniqueness will disappear.
This principle guides us to treat every one of us very personally. This also becomes a basic reference in the building up family or community, as we can empower every unique potential for creating a good common living and one best goal. God grants every man and woman this uniqueness, He blesses them, and He calls every one to follow His path toward perfection. The combination between divine grace and uniqueness of man is what we all expect to be realized in the perfection itself.
In the context of today's gospel, we are led to encounter a family’s special experience to welcome Jesus Christ in its home. This interesting story would send us a different message which is not from what we have in the Gospel, if Mary and Martha were not unique in each one of them. The uniqueness of Martha reflects all the special gifts in every one of us men and women, who love to receive or to welcome people. This is part of our human nature and also a divine quality given to all of us.
God has implanted in every one of us this gift, and we have as the duty to receive and to welcome something or someone to be part in our lives. It will be very useful and meaningful when we receive and welcome them to help our development as person, family, community and society. A development both physical and spiritual in this life is our ideal that is according to the will of God. It is certainly our obligation not to accept and welcome those who come only to harm and destroy this precious life.
God has also implanted in every one of us an ability to choose, which in the gospel today is personified by Mary. The Lord Himself even says that this gift of choosing is more important than the work of receiving or welcoming. Mary is said to have chosen the better. And why is she made better than her sister Martha? In the first place, we should say that this judgement is not meant to contradict one person to another, not even to separate or to divide them.
One important thing that we should form in our belief, is that when we receive or welcome whatever and whoever come to us, we allow them as many as they would in the spirit of generosity and love. But when we need to choose from whatever present, we actually go through a process of selection to what is best from all that we perceive good.
Let's pray. In the name of the Father ... O Lord Jesus, purify our minds and hearts so that we may choose what is best in life. Hail Mary, full of grace ... In name of the Father ...
