Martha Vs Mary?

In the homily our priest gave today on the traditional understanding of the
Active Martha and the Contemplative Mary from Luke 10:38-42 he added what I
thought was an interesting insight. He said that after Vatican II people
responded by ditching the faith in favor of social action and government type
programs (he said it a lot more eloquently than I have recorded) and that we
mainly concentrated on the active Martha side. There seems to be an age old
false dichotomy between comtemplate and active life, faith and works. I know I
am probably preaching to the choir when I talk about how much of the Catholic
Faith is both/and and not either/or. After Vatican II it does seem that the
devotions and personal prayer were de-emphasized or totally ignored and that
everything came down to some kind of social/political action. This was a rather
strange reaction to Vatican II, where the personal call to holiness was stressed
and that everyone (not just priests and religious) were called to this life.
Today in our society every job seems to be for a specialist, the renaissance man
has been replaced by a very narrowly focused specialized man. When I was in the
first throws of conversion I thought it unfair that since I was married I
couldn’t become a priest. I fell into the trap of thinking that to be religious
that you had to be the religious specialist of a priest/minister. I have
wondered if this specialist mindset may also contribute to the demands by some
women to become priests. St. Paul must have run into some of this for him to
have to explain the different roles that make up the Mystical Body of the Church
in 1 Corr 12. We must have a tendency to focus on only one aspect of something,
which has lead to probably every heresy. Every time Jesus had a special action
to perform it was always preceded by personal prayer. So I think to be both
Martha and Mary is not to be schizophrenic but to be fully complete.