“Blessed are they who have kept the word with a generous heart and yield a harvest through perseverance”
Martha’s sister Mary lived these words from Luke’s gospel. In our busy lives, it is not easy to take the time to sit still and listen to the word of the Lord proclaimed and take time to process. Jesus speaks to us through the Holy Spirit in the inner recesses of our hearts. This is time well spent, even though those of us with Type A personalities may think of it as wasting precious time when we could be accomplishing something. Like Martha, we too can be caught up in anxieties and worries and never taking time to slow down and process. Let the words of this Gospel acclamation as chanted this weekend by the cantor, remind us to be keepers of the WORD so we too may yield a fruitful harvest as we lead others to Christ. Here is the music to be presented this weekend.