19 July 2016
“Whoever does the will of my heavenly Father are my brothers
and sisters and mother.” God will always
be God. And we will always be
less-than-God. And yet, by the way we
live our lives, we become so close to God that we can call him “brother.” As much as Jesus is the Lord God, he’s also
our brother . . . and our child.
Every time we share a living faith, or lively hope, or merciful
charity, Christ is made present again on the face of the earth. Like our Blessed Mother, we, too, can give
birth to Jesus—not in a figurative way, but really. And the flesh Jesus takes on is our flesh. So that when people encounter us, they run
into not only a relative of Jesus, but also a mother of Jesus, and even Jesus
himself in the flesh.
“Whoever does the will of my heavenly Father are my brothers
and sisters and mother.” Jesus isn’t
just playing around with words and concepts.
He’s reminding us of our essential role in keeping his presence active
in the world. And the world needs a lot
of Jesus’ presence—today and always.
“Love one another,” Jesus said on behalf of God the
Father. “Love one another,” our Brother
said to us—because it’s through the practice of mercy and charity that the family
of God grows. And the more the family of
God grows, the less room there is in the world for despair and
hopelessness. Even among our differences
and diversity, may we be brothers and sisters in Christ—for the glory of God,
and the good of the world.
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