Mass Readings For Sept 23 2014

I was struck by the Gospel Reading for this day.  In particular: 

Jesus "said to them in reply, 'My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it.'"

I thought of a passage from the Letter of James.

Then the reading from evening prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours on 24 Sept 2014 was:

Act on this word.  If all you do is listen to it, you are deceiving yourselves.  There is on the other hand, the man who peers into freedom's ideal law and abides by it.  He is no forgetful listener, but one who carries out the law in practice.  Blest will this man be in whatever he does. (James 1:22,25)