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Do we not often have a myopic view on who are the members in our family? We often compartmentalise them into immediate, extended, Church, friends, colleagues and others. We may even behave, act, and love differently across the groups. Sometimes we treat friends better than our family and vice versa.

Today our Lord reminds us that we have a higher calling and that is all of us who are doing the Will of our Heavenly Father are to love and serve Him by loving and serving one another. A participative Christ centred community of disciples building the Kingdom of God. Amen

GOSPEL
Matthew 12:46–50

While Jesus was speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brothers appeared outside, wishing to speak with him. Someone told him, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, asking to speak with you.” But he said in reply to the one who told him, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?” And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

How many of us today are still asking for a sign or signs? “Please Lord show me a sign that you are real?” We either openly or secretly cry out.

What greater sign can there be? Then the cross in which He hung for the love of us. What greater sign can there be? Then the love of Himself in which He gives us in the Eucharist. What greater sign can there be? Then His Word which transforms us, that we experience His love, His Peace. Amen

GOSPEL
Matthew 12:38–42

Some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” He said to them in reply, “An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. Just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. At the judgment, the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and there is something greater than Jonah here. At the judgment the queen of the south will arise with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and there is something greater than Solomon here.”