6 Yea, Martha, blessed in your good serving, even you (with your leave would I say it) seekest this reward for all your labour— quiet. Now you are occupied about much serving, you have pleasure in feeding bodies which are mortal, though they be the bodies of Saints; but when you shall have got to that country, will you find there any stranger whom you may receive into your house? Will you find the hungry, to whom you may break your bread? Or the thirsty, to whom you may hold out your cup?
The sick whom you may visit? The litigious, whom you may set at one? The dead, whom you may bury? None of all these will be there, but what will be there? What Mary has chosen; there shall we be fed, and shall not feed others. Therefore there will that be in fullness and perfection which Mary has chosen here; from that rich table, from the word of the Lord did she gather up some crumbs. For would ye know what will be there? The Lord Himself says of His servants: “Verily I say unto you, that He will make them to sit down to meat, and will pass by and serve them.” What is “to sit down to meat,” but to “be still”?
What is, “to sit down to meat,” but to rest? What is, “He will pass by and serve them”? First, He passes by, and so serves. And where? In that heavenly Banquet, of which he says, “Verily I say unto you, Many shall come from the East and West, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.” There will the Lord feed us, but first He passes on from hence. For (as you should know) the Pasch is by interpretation Passing-over. The Lord came, He did divine things, He suffered human things.
Is He still spit upon? Is He still struck with the palm of the hand? Is He still crowned with thorns? Is He still scourged? Is He still crucified? Is He still wounded with a spear? “He has passed by.” And so too the Gospel tells us, when He kept the Paschal feast with His disciples. What says the Gospel? “But when the hour had come that Jesus should pass out of this world unto the Father.” Therefore did He pass, that He might feed us; let us follow, that we may be fed.
Source: Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament (New Advent)