Sunday, 30 December 2012
The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph - Feast - Year C
The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph - Feast
St. Sabinus, Bishop, and his Companions, Martyrs († c. 303)
Commentary of the day
Origen : "After three days they found him in the temple"
Reading
Lk 2:41-52.
Each year Jesus' parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover,
and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom.
After they had completed its days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it.
Thinking that he was in the caravan, they journeyed for a day and looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances,
but not finding him, they returned to Jerusalem to look for him.
After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions,
and all who heard him were astounded at his understanding and his answers.
When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety."
And he said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?"
But they did not understand what he said to them.
He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart.
And Jesus advanced (in) wisdom and age and favor before God and man.
Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB
Commentary of the day
Origen (c.185-253), priest and theologian
Homilies on Saint Luke's Gospel, no.18 ; SC 87
"After three days they found him in the temple"
Age twelve, Jesus remains in Jerusalem. Unaware, his parents look for him
anxiously and fail to find him. They look “among their relatives”, they
look “among their traveling companions”, they look “among their
acquaintances”, but amongst all these people they do not find him... My
Jesus doesn't want to be found in a crowd.Now learn where they found him...
so that you can find him too: “At the end of their search they found him in
the Temple”. Not just anywhere but “in the Temple” and not simply in the
Temple but “in the midst of the teachers, asking them questions and
listening to them”. So then, look for Jesus too in the Temple of God, seek
him in the Church, seek him among the teachers in this temple, who never
leave it. If you seek like this, you will find...They find him “sitting in
the midst of the teachers, asking them questions and listening to them”.
Again, Jesus is here; he is asking us questions and listening to us
speaking. Luke says: “They were all astounded”. What was it they were
astounded about? Not his questions, wonderful though they were, but his
answers... “Moses spoke,” Scripture says, “and God answered him in a voice”
(Ex 19,19). This was how the Lord taught Moses what he did not know.
Sometimes Jesus questions, sometimes he answers..., and no matter how
wonderful his questions are, his answers are more wonderful still.That we,
too, may hear him and he may put questions to us that he himself will
answer, let us beg for him and make an intense and anxious attempt to find
him and then we shall find the one we are looking for. Not without reason
does Scripture say: “Your father and I have been looking for you
sorrowfully”. Indeed, someone who is looking for Jesus should not do so
carelessly and without effort, in an intermittent way as some do... who,
for this reason, do not find him. As for us, let us say: “We are looking
hard for you”.
The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph - Feast - Year C
The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph - Feast
St. Sabinus, Bishop, and his Companions, Martyrs († c. 303)
Commentary of the day
Origen : "After three days they found him in the temple"
Reading
Lk 2:41-52.
Each year Jesus' parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover,
and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom.
After they had completed its days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it.
Thinking that he was in the caravan, they journeyed for a day and looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances,
but not finding him, they returned to Jerusalem to look for him.
After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions,
and all who heard him were astounded at his understanding and his answers.
When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety."
And he said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?"
But they did not understand what he said to them.
He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart.
And Jesus advanced (in) wisdom and age and favor before God and man.
Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB
Commentary of the day
Origen (c.185-253), priest and theologian
Homilies on Saint Luke's Gospel, no.18 ; SC 87
"After three days they found him in the temple"
Age twelve, Jesus remains in Jerusalem. Unaware, his parents look for him
anxiously and fail to find him. They look “among their relatives”, they
look “among their traveling companions”, they look “among their
acquaintances”, but amongst all these people they do not find him... My
Jesus doesn't want to be found in a crowd.Now learn where they found him...
so that you can find him too: “At the end of their search they found him in
the Temple”. Not just anywhere but “in the Temple” and not simply in the
Temple but “in the midst of the teachers, asking them questions and
listening to them”. So then, look for Jesus too in the Temple of God, seek
him in the Church, seek him among the teachers in this temple, who never
leave it. If you seek like this, you will find...They find him “sitting in
the midst of the teachers, asking them questions and listening to them”.
Again, Jesus is here; he is asking us questions and listening to us
speaking. Luke says: “They were all astounded”. What was it they were
astounded about? Not his questions, wonderful though they were, but his
answers... “Moses spoke,” Scripture says, “and God answered him in a voice”
(Ex 19,19). This was how the Lord taught Moses what he did not know.
Sometimes Jesus questions, sometimes he answers..., and no matter how
wonderful his questions are, his answers are more wonderful still.That we,
too, may hear him and he may put questions to us that he himself will
answer, let us beg for him and make an intense and anxious attempt to find
him and then we shall find the one we are looking for. Not without reason
does Scripture say: “Your father and I have been looking for you
sorrowfully”. Indeed, someone who is looking for Jesus should not do so
carelessly and without effort, in an intermittent way as some do... who,
for this reason, do not find him. As for us, let us say: “We are looking
hard for you”.
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