Imagine yourself seated in a banquet hall waiting for the guest speaker to come on stage. And Jesus enters. Looking at all of you his first words are, “who are my sisters and my brothers”? And then he looked around to all of you seated in the banquet hall, and with a compassionate smile and arms reaching out he says, “You are my brothers and my sisters”.
We do want to be called the brother or sister of Jesus? We do want to be part of the family of Jesus? “My mother and my brothers and sisters
are those who do the will of my Father.”
We live in a world where morals and values are changing, and changing quickly. We are altering God’s world to be our world, a selfish world. It is a world losing the brother and sister relationship with Jesus by doing our will and not God’s will.
So, we ask for God’s help, to bring us back. We strengthen our faith through the wisdom of the Holy Spirit when we pray, read Scripture and reflect on God’s Word. It is those words that keep us on that narrow road, by doing God’s will.
If we have strayed off the narrow road, God is calling us back, and is always calling us back, to do his will, to come back to his family, to pick up our cross and follow him. There is so much at stake. So much to gain and so much to lose.
Today, we celebrate the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, a man filled with the Holy Spirit. The Morning Prayer Antiphon sums up his life and can be a model and inspiration for our own life. “Blessed be the Lord; for the love of Him, Saint Thomas Aquinas spent long hours in prayer, study and writing”. A true brother of Jesus.
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