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.”
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