Monday, July 29 : Saint Augustine

“All you did to one of the least of these, you did to me” (Mt 25,40)… Here are reassuring words for you, Martha. Yet if I may say so, Martha, while blessed in your good service, you are seeking a reward for your labors, namely rest. Now you are occupied with much ministering; you feed mortal bodies, though they be of saints, but when you have reached home at the end of your journey will you find there a pilgrim to welcome? Will you find any hungry to feed? Any thirsty to whom you may offer drink? Any sick to visit? Any quarreling to reconcile? Any dead to bury? None of these will be there. But what will be there? What Mary has chosen: there we shall be fed, we shall not feed others. And so what Mary chose here will be full and perfect there: from that rich table she collected crumbs from the Lord’s word. And so you wish to know what will be there? The Lord himself says of his servants: “Truly, I say to you, he will have them sit at table, and he will come and serve them” (Lk 12,37).
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