AT first glance, Christ’s words seem unsettling. “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it.” (Lk 8,21)
Was Jesus distancing himself from his own Mother? Not at all. He was revealing why Mary is the greatest of all creatures. She is blessed not simply because she gave birth to Christ, but because she heard God’s word, welcomed it with complete faith, and lived it to the full.
Blood relationship is a gift. Spiritual relationship is greater. Christ throws open the doors of his family to everyone. Membership is not determined by race, status, or ancestry. It depends on one thing: hearing God’s word and putting it into practice.
That changes everything. Christianity is not simply about belonging to an institution or carrying a religious label. We become members of Christ’s family by living in communion with him. The Gospel is meant to shape our thoughts, decisions, work, relationships, and even the smallest details of daily life.
We may know the teachings of the faith, attend Mass, and say our prayers, yet still fail to let God’s word direct our lives. Hearing without obeying is incomplete. Faith must become life.
God’s word is not merely information to be learned but a living reality meant to transform us. Every command of God is an invitation to share in his own life. Every circumstance becomes an opportunity to seek and fulfill his will. The consequences are far-reaching.
If hearing and doing God’s word make us members of Christ’s family, then holiness cannot be confined to churches or moments of prayer. It must reach the office, the classroom, the marketplace, the home, the traffic jam, and even our moments of rest. There is no neutral ground in the Christian life. Every situation can and should bring us closer to God if we respond with faith and love.
Work is no longer just work. It becomes prayer when offered to God. Family life becomes a school of charity. Daily duties become opportunities for sanctification. Ordinary life is not an obstacle to holiness but its ordinary path.
This also transforms how we see other people. If everyone is called to belong to Christ’s family, then every person deserves respect, patience, and genuine charity. The difficult colleague, the demanding client, the noisy neighbor, and even those who oppose us are persons loved by God and called to holiness. We cannot claim to belong to Christ while refusing to love those whom he loves.
There is another important consequence. Belonging to Christ’s family also means sharing in its mission. Every Christian is called to be an apostle—not necessarily through preaching, but through professional competence, cheerful service, integrity, kindness, and authentic friendship. Our ordinary life becomes our apostolate.
Mary remains our perfect model. She listened, trusted, and obeyed. She united prayer and daily duty so completely that every ordinary task became an expression of her love for God. That is why she is both the Mother of Christ and his first and greatest disciple.
The Gospel leaves us with a simple question: Are we merely hearing God’s word, or are we living it? The answer is found not in what we say but in how we work, forgive, serve, suffer, and love. Every ordinary day offers countless opportunities to show that we truly belong to Christ’s family.
The family of Jesus continues to grow whenever someone listens to God’s word and puts it into practice. That is the surest sign that Christ is alive in the world today!
Will Artificial Intelligence replace us?
This human had written a few 5 minute read articles on Artificial Intelligence and Humans in the different local newspapers. The thesis was simple, teachers and AI are competitors in the teaching profession.
Only a few of this works garnered attention and seldom does it ring bells of interactions from friends and fellow knowledge workers alike.
Several Search Engines can be consulted and that you can actually find in seconds a quick denial and AI Tool, denies outright the replacement of the Human Teachers by AI and Robots. Here is what one Artificial Intelligence reply:
The role of AI in education is expanding and evolving, but it is unlikely that AI will completely replace human teachers in the near or distant future. While AI can offer personalized learning experiences, instant feedback, and efficient administrative support, there are certain aspects of teaching that only humans can provide. Here are a few reasons why human teachers remain irreplaceable:
If only we will take an AI’s word for it. Then we must set the morbid thoughts aside and refuse to be bothered by the thoughts of being replaced.
Disruptive Technology
Samantha Rohn defines it as Disruptive technology is any new tool that changes how people and businesses think about something. Generally, disruptive technology emerges as a new approach to an existing activity (eCommerce, ridesharing) or as a completely invention that entirely transforms how people do things (television, the Internet). Because of this, disruptive technology often leads to the creation of new products and industries, which displace existing ones.
My late Father was a mailman, when he retires in 2016, he was on an organization that was lonely , less frequented, and out of relevance. Snail Mail was not anymore romantic the message reaches expiry dates and new innovations like Cellular Phone and Email, was lower in costs, almost free yet its faster, real time and reliable.
In the last 50 years, many of the technologies were replaced by a smarter, better versions yet it also starved and kill the incumbent with the drastic and even slow but sure transition of low tech to high tech metamorphosis.
• Typewriters to Computers
• Ordinary Camera to Digital Camera to Cellular Phone
• Physical Media to Digital Media
• Video Rental to Live Streaming
• Ordinary Mail to SMS/ Email
The teachers must realize that in their heydays the one replaced cash cow for companies that turned awry in such a short period.
Lacking Emotional Intelligence, Ethical Guidance and Empathy the AI will never be as good as Humans but in some aspects of the economy , Humans are being robbed by the AI for possible employment because AI or Robots can do the task without paid leave, all for several days at times. At a lower operating cost and less friction and conflict.
Will human teachers be replaced by AI Robots or Program; I am sure it will. The certainty that it will replace us Human Teachers or at the very least, they will be laid -off.
So how soon, only heavens know!