When we reminisce about our experience of love, we feel grateful to God for providing us with opportunities to have loving relationships with our family, friends, neighbours, and colleagues. Why did Jesus, on this occasion, seem to ignore his own relatives when they pressed to see him? His love and respect for his mother and his relatives was unquestionable. In this event, Jesus teaches us a higher reality of relationships, namely our relationship with God and his people.

Jesus invites us to imbibe the spirit of universal brotherhood and sisterhood in our daily life. He changes the order of relationships and shows that true relationship is possible only by loving everybody unconditionally and doing the will of God. Pope St John Paul II says, 'what unites is divine (God is present), but what divides is not (God is absent). Let us be united as sons and daughters of God, who transforms all our relationships and calls us to participate in his divine love by doing his will. Let us pray with the Psalmist “Here I am; I come to do your will”.