Consider St. Martha and her dinner party for Jesus, plus a Prevost family recipe.
I read cookbooks for fun (including this Catholic one). I think St. Martha would too, if she lived in 2026. I like to cull ideas for future cooking.
Consider St. Martha and her dinner party for Jesus. There are so many beautiful lessons for us to ponder in prayer. First, she and her siblings were dear friends of Our Lord — what a blessing! Christ spent quality time in their home in fellowship (not to mention sharing sorrow — “Jesus wept” — before raising his dear friend, Lazarus).
St. Martha’s culinary creations revolved around peaches, honey and homemade bread (and maybe some lemon and mint, if the internet is correct) on The Chosen. And it is likely her recipes also included fish, olives, figs, dates and grapes, which were all staple foods of the time.
In Martha’s footsteps, I enjoy being in the kitchen. I pray when I am there, too, getting in quality time with Jesus — to choose the better part, like Mary.
Pope Leo reflected on this domestic scene last July, noting that Christ “comes to his friends’ house in the midst of
