ACC ~ Mark 3 v32

ORDERING THE RELATION TO FAMILY

AUGUSTINE: It is he who said that no one belongs to his family except those who do the will of his Father. To be sure, he graciously included Mary herself in this number, for she was doing the will of his Father. Thus he spurned the earthly name of his mother in comparison to heavenly kinship. … Do not be ungrateful, pay your duty of gratitude to your mother, repay earthly favors by spiritual ones, temporal by eternal ones. LETTER 243, TO LAETUS. [1]

[1] Cetedoc 0262, 243.57.9.576.3; FC 32:224-25**.