In thought...
While praying the Joyful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary, a light of God came to me. I was praying the fifth decade..."Finding the Child Jesus in the Temple." I have always pondered why did God only reveal to the world this moment of Jesus' childhood, and no other? He lived among us for 30 years and this was the only moment of His adolescence God revealed to us, Jesus at twelve years old. Why? I thought of his mother Mary and foster-father Joseph, how they must of felt when they left Jerusalem...three days into their journey and realize that Jesus was not with them. As any mother would feel, Mary must have been scared...Where is my child? Where is God? As the story is told, Mary and Joseph travel back to Jerusalem and find Jesus in the Temple. Jesus said, "Didn't you realize I would be here at the Temple, in my Father's House?" (Luke 2:49).
While praying I thought just maybe God only revealed this part of His childhood because He wanted us to look more closely at it too. God was bringing us to the Temple. Telling us that is where we will find Him - Jesus.
We must consider the whole picture when contemplating this idea. Remember in Mark 14:22-24, Jesus instituted the New Covenant...at the Last Supper. As they were eating, Jesus took bread and asked God's blessing on it and broke it in pieces and gave it to them and said, "Eat it -this is my body, given up for you. DO THIS in remembrance of Me."
Then he took a cup of wine and gave thanks to God for it and gave it to them; and they all drank from it. And he said to them, "This is my blood, poured out for many, sealing the New Covenant between God and man."
Jesus is not giving us a suggestion...he is giving us a Commandment, telling us to DO THIS. That commandment is what is celebrated at every Catholic Mass, every day, in every Catholic Church, through out the world.
In that story...when Jesus brings Mary and Joseph back to the Temple, this is a illustration of where we should be as well. Jesus is in the Church, in every Tabernacle all over the world. He is pointing us toward the Mass...the New Covenant. He is there. He promised to be with us always (Matthew 28:20), "I am with you always, even to the end of the world."
He said he would never leave us, and He hasn't. He is truly present with us, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Holy Eucharist. In every Tabernacle, all over the world.
As He said to His Mother Mary and foster-father Joseph, He says to us...
"Didn't you realize I would be in my Father's House?"
While praying the Joyful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary, a light of God came to me. I was praying the fifth decade..."Finding the Child Jesus in the Temple." I have always pondered why did God only reveal to the world this moment of Jesus' childhood, and no other? He lived among us for 30 years and this was the only moment of His adolescence God revealed to us, Jesus at twelve years old. Why? I thought of his mother Mary and foster-father Joseph, how they must of felt when they left Jerusalem...three days into their journey and realize that Jesus was not with them. As any mother would feel, Mary must have been scared...Where is my child? Where is God? As the story is told, Mary and Joseph travel back to Jerusalem and find Jesus in the Temple. Jesus said, "Didn't you realize I would be here at the Temple, in my Father's House?" (Luke 2:49).
While praying I thought just maybe God only revealed this part of His childhood because He wanted us to look more closely at it too. God was bringing us to the Temple. Telling us that is where we will find Him - Jesus.
We must consider the whole picture when contemplating this idea. Remember in Mark 14:22-24, Jesus instituted the New Covenant...at the Last Supper. As they were eating, Jesus took bread and asked God's blessing on it and broke it in pieces and gave it to them and said, "Eat it -this is my body, given up for you. DO THIS in remembrance of Me."
Then he took a cup of wine and gave thanks to God for it and gave it to them; and they all drank from it. And he said to them, "This is my blood, poured out for many, sealing the New Covenant between God and man."
Jesus is not giving us a suggestion...he is giving us a Commandment, telling us to DO THIS. That commandment is what is celebrated at every Catholic Mass, every day, in every Catholic Church, through out the world.
In that story...when Jesus brings Mary and Joseph back to the Temple, this is a illustration of where we should be as well. Jesus is in the Church, in every Tabernacle all over the world. He is pointing us toward the Mass...the New Covenant. He is there. He promised to be with us always (Matthew 28:20), "I am with you always, even to the end of the world."
He said he would never leave us, and He hasn't. He is truly present with us, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Holy Eucharist. In every Tabernacle, all over the world.
As He said to His Mother Mary and foster-father Joseph, He says to us...
"Didn't you realize I would be in my Father's House?"
