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John 19: 26-27
"When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold your son!” Then He said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home."

Family
Jesus looks down from the cross and sees His mother, Mary standing alongside John, the disciple Jesus loved. He once again chooses to withstand the pain to speak. This time, He essentially instructs John to care for His mother. But He also entrusts John to Mary as well.

Here He is demonstrating for us His unwavering love and care for us. He is instructing us as a Church to care for one another. We are family. We are brothers and sisters in Christ.

But even more than that, He is also showing us how much He loves us and cares about every single detail of our lives. In the midst of bearing the weight of the sins of the world on His shoulders He shows this moment of love and care.

This is a picture of Christ's immense love for us that, while we were yet sinners, He gave His life for us.

"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)

He cares about the little things in our lives. He cares about our needs, he cares about our sorrows, he cares about our sickness and our pain, yes. But He also cares about the little things..the little things we may not even consider that the King of the Universe would even think of.

He loves us and cherishes us as His children. He wants us to be cared for. He is demonstrating also that we are to care for one another. We are to treat each other in the Church as family. We are to bear each other's burdens as though they were our own flesh and blood. He is showing that family in the Church is not determined by human birth, but by new birth in Christ.

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