Gospel: Mark 3:31-35
The mother of Jesus and his brothers
arrived at the house. Standing outside, they sent word to Jesus and called him.
A crowd seated around him told him, “Your mother and your brothers and your
sisters are outside asking for you. But he said to them in reply, “Who are my
mother and my brothers? And looking around at those seated in the circle he
said “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of God is
my brother and sister and mother.”
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Reflection:
In what way could we become a relative of
Jesus? It’s when we do acts of mercy and compassion toward anyone in need. It’s
when we help Jesus spread His good news of salvation to others most especially
to those who have not heard yet of His gospel message.
To do good to our blood relatives is
already a given fact of life. We help them because we are connected with them
by consanguinity or through common family tree. Jesus in our gospel wants to stretch
further our acts of mercy and compassion He wants us not to limit these acts of
mercy and compassion to our own family circle only!
Say for example what if Jesus would ask us,
could you also give the same help to a complete stranger in need? The same help
that you would normally give to your blood relative/s? This is very difficult
to do: To give help to a stranger with the same amount of help that we would
normally do to our blood relative/s.
Nonetheless, this is the challenge for all
of us if we want to be called a relative of Jesus: We must help anyone in need!
In hindsight, why did Jesus said that whoever does the will of God is my
brother and sister and mother? Perhaps the purpose of which is to measure our desire
to become a relative of Jesus.
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