WANNA TO BE THE KITH AND KIN OF JESUS

Ordinary Time: Week 25 Readings I - Ezra 8: 7-8, 12, 14-20 II - Lk. 8: 19-21 WANNA TO BE THE KITH AND KIN OF JESUS In today’s Gospel passage Jesus shows us the way to become a member of his family. When he was preaching, his mother and brothers waited outside, asking to speak to him. When the message was passed on to Jesus, Jesus stretched out his hand towards his disciples and said, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the Word of God and do it”. Jesus prescribes a higher way of relationship than mere physical one. In both the ways, Mary is his mother: in physical and in submitting herself to the will of the Father in heaven. If we adhere to the Word of God and submit to the same we too are his mother, brothers and sisters. It is challenge and a privilege. It is a challenge because the Word of God may demand us to go against our own wills, whims and fancies. It is privilege because we become a member of God’s family. Take us the challenge and inherit the privilege.