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1. Read aloud to your children Luke 10:38-42, using your favorite children’s Bible. This is the Gospel from last Sunday, so they should recognize it.
2. Study the painting above. (It’s Christ in the House of Martha and Mary,
attributed to Georg Friedrich Stettner). Ask them to identify the
people in the painting. Discuss the painting in this manner: “Martha and
Mary are both holding something. What do you think those objects are?
What does each represent? (Mary is reading the Bible. This represents
meditating on Sacred Scripture. Martha is holding a duck, symbolizing
being busy with household tasks.) Who are the other people in the
picture? What are they doing? How many people appear to have been
listening to Jesus? (Only Mary does.) Does Mary look disturbed by what
Martha is saying? (No, she looks peaceful.)
3. Discuss: Why do you
think the artist filled the foreground of the picture with food? (To
show how much work Martha had to do or had been doing.) Do you think
Martha was doing something important? (Yes, Jesus and His disciples
needed to eat.) What could she have done differently so she could sit
and listen to Jesus too? (She could have made a simpler meal.)
4. Remind your children of the Feeding of the 5000.
How much food did Jesus need to feed all those people? (5 loaves of
bread and 2 fish.) Do you think Martha needed to work all day to cook
for Jesus? (Probably not, because He could have fed them miraculously,
as He had done before.) Why do you think Martha was working so hard?
(She was probably trying to show Jesus how much she loved Him by making
Him a great meal.)
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