Readings
I - Prov. 21: 1-6, 10-13
II - Lk. 8: 19-21
RELATIONSHIP IS THE ESSENCE OF CHRISTIAN LIFE
Today’s Gospel passage is about the mother and brothers of Jesus, trying to meet Jesus. In this Gospel passage, Jesus is not trying to deny relationship but demonstrates a higher level of relationship with God and fellow human beings. God is personification of forgiveness, gentleness, compassion, kindness, mercy, benevolence and in short He is love Himself. He tries to relate with us in love, through the Scripture, sacraments, events, nature and persons inviting us to extend this love to our fellow beings. If we wish to relate with God we are called to exercise this essence of Christian life in our relationship: love, compassion, mercy, kindness, compassion and gentleness with our fellow beings, in our families and in the society at large giving way to the blossoming up of the kingdom of God.
Human beings are basically social beings and therefore cannot exist without relationship. The supremacy consists in living out our Christian identity in all our relationships: a benevolent love with no ‘if’s and ‘but’s. If we wish to be the mother/brother/sister of Jesus, we are called to love him in the genuine love for the other. Let us take up the challenge to become the kith and kin of Jesus.
