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Thomas and Martha

Fr. Russell Becker, O.F.M.

The month of July has two feasts of people who are very interesting and who are often used as badexamples when we are discussing how we should be as disciples: July 3 is the feast of St. Thomas theApostle and July 29 is the feast of St. Martha who in the Tradition is called one of the “equals of theapostles.” For the most part, when we hear their names we think of Thomas’s great doubting andMartha’s being “busy about many things."