Are you Martha or Mary?

Welcome to Are you Martha or Mary?

This Quiz is based on the story of Martha and Mary (Luke 10: 38-42).

Good luck!

1. What is your approach to party planning?

Checklists, excel spreadsheets, the whole works

Sometimes I use checklists; sometimes. I don't. It depends

I generally don't use checklists. I just let things happen

2. When your party guests are almost here and you are not quite ready, what do you do?

Panic and try to finish everything before they arrive

I am glad because some of those guests can help out now

Panic but quickly accept that I may not finish as I would like

3. Your guests do not seem impressed by the dishes you have served them for dinner. What do you do?

Look past that and just try to make sure the rest of the evening is good.

Apologize profusely, consider cooking something new that may not take too long

Apologize and offer to order in something else

4. You are praying your rosary and a friend who has ongoing issues calls you - probably to vent although you are not sure. What are you most likely to do?

Let her wait and you will call after the rosary

Pause your rosary, text her to say that you will call back, then continue your rosary

Pick up the call and plan to continue the rosary later

5. You are rushing to Bible study. On your way, you find a woman crying on the street, alone and disheveled. You stop to ask what is wrong. Her response is long winded and you are running late. What do you do?

You cut her short and go to Bible study because you don't have time

You listen to her story and miss almost half of Bible study as a result

You listen to her story, figure out it is not urgent, then you excuse yourself promising to pray for her

6. How would family members/others best describe your behavior when you organize family events

Very calm and carefree

Somewhat panicked but efficient

Mostly calm and ok in efficiency.

7. You had planned to do three devotional prayers today. It is now 9pm and you haven’t done any of them. You are tired and sleepy. What do you do?

Go to bed and plan to do better tomorrow

Begin and try to quickly finish all three prayers

Choose to do one or any short prayer which there is time for, then you go to bed

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