Tuesday 22nd July, 2008
St Mary Magdalene. Micah 7:14-15, 18-20. Lord, show us your mercy and love—Ps 84(85):2-8. Matthew 12:46-50.
When Jesus says that his true kinsfolk are those who do the Father’s will, he is referring to a spiritual relationship. As followers of Christ who bear his name, we cry out with the psalmist ‘my whole being yearns and pines for Yahweh’s courts’. This is a longing to be in God’s presence and a desire to be in a right relationship with God.
Like Mary Magdalene, true sister of Christ who sought him at the tomb, we too seek Jesus, even and especially when the world denounces him. As his brothers and sisters we freely choose Christ above all and it is in the spirit of this familiar and familial love that we prefer standing at the threshold of God’s house to abiding by the values of this world.
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