SAINT JOSEPH
Luke 2:41-51a ©
Mary stored up all these things in her heart |
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Every
year the parents of Jesus used to go to Jerusalem for the feast of the
Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up for the feast as
usual. When they were on their way home after the
feast, the boy Jesus
stayed behind in Jerusalem without his parents knowing it. They assumed
he was with the caravan, and it was only after a day’s journey that they
went to look for him among their relations and acquaintances. When they
failed to find him they went back to Jerusalem looking for him
everywhere.
Three days later, they found him in the Temple,
sitting among the doctors, listening to them, and asking them questions;
and all those who heard him were astounded at his intelligence and his
replies. They were overcome when they saw him, and his mother said to
him, ‘My child, why have, you done this to us? See how worried your
father and I have been, looking for you.’
‘Why were you looking for me?’ he replied. ‘Did you
not know that I must be busy with my Father’s affairs?’ But they did not
understand what he meant. He then went down with them and came to Nazareth and lived under their authority.
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