Gospel (Mk 3,20-21) - At that time, Jesus entered a house and again a crowd gathered, so much so that they could not even eat. Then his men, hearing this, went out to fetch him; in fact they said: "he is beside himself".

The commentary on the Gospel by Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia

Jesus returns to Capernaum, to Simon's house. And, immediately, a large crowd gathers and presses insistently, to the point of even preventing him from eating. And Jesus is moved, he doesn't seem to give himself peace to help and console. It is an evangelical scene that scandalizes the laziness that so often marks our lives. How many times do we get caught up in our personal rhythms, those that meet our needs, completely neglecting to consider whether others need help! We don't always have to be the only measure of our days and our worries. Concentration on ourselves means betraying the mission that Jesus entrusted to us. Today's crowds, the poor, the sick, the lonely are the men and women that Jesus himself has entrusted to our hands. We are personally responsible for them. “He's out of his mind,” his relatives say of him. Jesus has known these accusations directly since his childhood, just twelve years old, when Mary and Joseph rebuked him for having stopped in the temple to argue with the doctors. And in front of their concerns he replied: "Did you not know that I must concern myself with my Father's affairs?". The relatives who had gathered in Capernaum that day even went so far as to say that he was "out of his mind", that he was crazy. And they try to take him away to bring him back to normal life. The Gospel, however, is like a fire that burns and moves. It is the strength of love that always leads us to "go out" from ourselves, from our own small horizon to welcome that of God.