Gospel 

Luke 8:19-21

The mother of Jesus and his brothers came to him

but were unable to join him because of the crowd.

He was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside

and they wish to see you.”

He said to them in reply, “My mother and my brothers 

are those who hear the word of God and act on it.”

Reflection

Jesus came to reveal to us the relationship that is possible between ourselves and God the Father. And what we see in this story is a clarity of what it is that Jesus intention is. He wants to make a new relationship between God and His people as intimate and as close as mother, father, son, brother. He makes it clear that he has come to call us to a new family.

A family of faith. A family called the church.

Closing Prayer

Father, your call to have an intimate relationship with you is something we didn't expect. Help us to understand it more fully so that we can know the intimacy that you long to have with us. You dwelling within us, making us one with you, in a way we could never have imagined. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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