Today’s Gospel story, where Jesus is told by his family that he’s “mad” underlines what trouble he is even for people well disposed to him. He is disturbing and the only way to live with that disturbance and make something positive of it is firstly to accept that he disturbs us when he expects us to change when we come to follow him and to ask God for the grace to listen to Jesus’ invitation and to find his we can respond creatively and constructively to that disturbance.

About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.

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