07/30/2026
From a sermon by St. Bernard on Sts. Martha, Mary, and Lazarus (Feast Day July 29):
In our home the ordering of love assigns these three things:
service to Martha,
contemplation to Mary,
penance to Lazarus.
The soul that possesses all these at the same time is complete;
however, each of them seems to pertain more to distinct individuals,
so that some are free for holy contemplation, others give themselves to fraternal service, while still others ponder their years in the bitterness of their soul, like wounded individuals sleeping in graves.
