Today's readings are here: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/012412.cfm
"For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."
One of the things that unites family members is DNA. It is what causes us, sometimes, to look and act alike. Jesus lets us know in today's Gospel that there is a sense in which the same is true in our spiritual family, the Church.
Jesus, as the second person of the Trinity, has God's "DNA" by nature. As such, it was his nature always to obey the will of God the Father. This is because it is God's nature to love, so Christ always loved the Father and his fellow men and women perfectly.
Through baptism, we were given God's "DNA"; so we share in the divine nature. We share in the divine nature, or are participants in it, by grace; whereas, Christ had God's "DNA" by nature.
Since we share in God's nature, we need to act as Christ acted by loving God and our neighbor as Christ loves them. When we love, we are doing the will of God; and we reveal that we are brothers and sisters of Christ because we have the same DNA, that is, God's "DNA".
May God give us the wisdom to see the love he has for us in giving us his nature, and may he give us the strength to act in accordance with that nature.
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