Carmelite homily for Tuesday, January 28, 2020 – Lectionary 318 (Mark 3:31-35)
In today’s Gospel Jesus says, “those who do the will of the Father are like brother and sister and mother to me.” That means being familiar, being horizontal and not lording it over. Saint John of the Cross writes, “Those attached to dignities are considered by God as mere slaves and not offspring.” I think that’s the call of today’s Gospel: to see the world horizontally, not vertically; and to live horizontally, not vertically. All are brothers and sisters in Jesus.