How would you feel if Jesus showed up at your house?   And not alone, but with 10-12 of his friends, all of them tired and hungry from traipsing around the dusty countryside. Christ in the House of Martha and Mary ,  Johannes Vermeer , before 1654–1655, oil on canvas ( National Gallery of Scotland ,  Edinburgh ) – Mary is seated at the feet of Jesus “ "Almost all his paintings",  Hans Koningsberger  wrote, "are apparently set in two smallish rooms in his house in Delft; they show the same furniture and decorations in various arrangements and they often portray the same people, mostly women “ [Wikipedia Reading from the Gospel according to Luke, at 8:00 mass, Friday, July 22, the Feast Day of St. Martha [i] : Luke 10:38-42 38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village [ii] where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted by all