Main news for 11 January 2017

As always with Jesus, it is said paradoxically. And even shockingly for the listeners. Does He really want us to part with all our relatives, abandon them for the sake of His Kingdom, in which He promises us a greater number of children, brothers and sisters, wives and parents? By the way, why would we need a greater number of parents?

No, whatever else may be said, Jesus did not say foolish things. Perhaps He wants to lead us out of our complacency, out of the thought that everything is normal with us: we have families, relatives who love us, children who will be our continuation... He wants to say that all this is only a shadow of what can be, that all our relations built by ourselves are weak and short-lived. But if we renounce these our relations for the sake of God's Kingdom, for the sake of His primacy among us, for the sake of those relations which He can build between us, then we not only will not lose all these neighbors of ours, but will truly acquire them. Then we will really love one another, and not possess one another. And what arises between us here, "in this time," will no longer be subject to time and death, but will pass with us into eternal life.