In this week's edition of There's more in the Gospel than meets the eye, Jill
Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Feast
of the Holy Family. Listen:
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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.