Gospel: Luke
2:41-51
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.
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Reflection:
When a
family is hit with misfortune, say for example sickness of a child. It’s always
the mother who suffers first. It’s not the father but the mother. Why is this
so? This is for the reason that both mother and child have deeper emotional
connection between themselves.
Before a
child is born to this world he/she stays first in his mother’s womb. For nine
long months both mother and child develops a bond that only death can break.
How did
the Blessed Mother and her husband Joseph feel when she noticed that Jesus was
not with them? It must have been very difficult for both of them but more
difficult perhaps for the Blessed Mother. Jesus was her only child, she took
care of Jesus and before she gave birth to Jesus. Jesus was inside her
immaculate womb for nine months.
Just
imagine the anxiety that the Blessed Mother felt. During that time when they discovered
that the boy Jesus was not in their company. But she remained calm as they went
back to Jerusalem to look for Jesus. And when they found Jesus the Blessed
Mother said this to Jesus, “Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and
I have been looking for you with great anxiety (Luke 2:48).”
The
Blessed Mother is not only concerned with Jesus’ welfare. She also is very much
concerned with our own well being. Inside her Immaculate heart dwells the deep desire
to look after us too so that she could bring us back closer to Jesus.
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