PRI Reflections on Scripture | Saturday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time

Finding God In Our Hearts with Msgr. Don Fischer · Jan 24, 2026 · 5m

Gospel

Mark 3:20-21

Jesus came with his disciples into the house.

Again the crowd gathered,

making it impossible for them even to eat.

When his relatives heard of this they set out to seize him,

for they said, “He is out of his mind.”

Reflection

How did Jesus deal with his critics? I think it might have been easier for him to deal with the critics of the temple because they were seen in his mind as those who were very, very dangerous and needed to be silenced.

But this opens up another way of understanding the tension that he lived in, and that is to lose his family's support, to be called…