GOSPEL READING: MARK 3:31-35
Who are they true relations or who should be the true relations in one’s life? Jesus answers it well. Are they the kindred according to the flesh or spiritual kindred? For Jesus the relations are those who do the will of the Father. He makes this point clear through comparison. His mother and relations are waiting outside to take him home.
Mary was not only his physical mother but much his spiritual. (“Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word”). It was Mary who was the first one to do the will of the Father. Mary became the excellent model of the spiritual relations about who Jesus was speaking about. There is the transformation from physical relation to spiritual relation.
உண்மை உறவினர் யார் என்று இயேசு இங்கே கூறுகிறார்: கடவுளின் திருவுளத்தை நிறைவேற்றுபவரே. மரியாதான் கடவுளின் திருவுளத்தை நிறைவேற்றியவர். (‘நான் ஆண்டவரின் அடிமை@ உம்சொற்படியே எனக்கு நிகழட்டும்”). ஏல்லா உறவுகளுக்கும் மரியா ஒரு முன்அடையாளமாகிறாள்.
