Meditation 57
THE LIFE AT NAZARETH
1. The Finding of the Child.
It took them three days to find Him. What long days! What long nights! All day long they would run from one place to another, enquiring here and there. This intense activity would to some extent mitigate the sufferings of Mary. But at nightfall when She would retire to Her rest, tired and exhausted by the sorrow and the days fatigue, what would She think on finding Herself alone! How Her imagination would picture Jesus, perhaps already suffering His passion and death for men. Accompany your Mother during those terrible nights, try to fathom the depth of Her sorrow at the loss of Jesus. Know how to imitate Her if one day you too are visited by the same tribulation, if you too one day lose Jesus or run the risk of losing Him.
At last, the day of rejoicing dawns. Mary and Joseph come back to Jerusalem, search the courtyards and annexes of the Temple and finally they find their Life! They see Jesus peacefully talking to the doctors. What a variety of feelings floods the heart of Mary. On the one side immense joy because She has found the Child safe and whole, on the other gratitude to God for having granted them again the possession of their Child. Feelings too of admiration and astonishment on seeing their Child, always so modest and humble, entering into public discussion with the doctors of the Law and teaching them. What was the meaning of it all?
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
THE LIFE AT NAZARETH
1. The Finding of the Child.
It took them three days to find Him. What long days! What long nights! All day long they would run from one place to another, enquiring here and there. This intense activity would to some extent mitigate the sufferings of Mary. But at nightfall when She would retire to Her rest, tired and exhausted by the sorrow and the days fatigue, what would She think on finding Herself alone! How Her imagination would picture Jesus, perhaps already suffering His passion and death for men. Accompany your Mother during those terrible nights, try to fathom the depth of Her sorrow at the loss of Jesus. Know how to imitate Her if one day you too are visited by the same tribulation, if you too one day lose Jesus or run the risk of losing Him.
At last, the day of rejoicing dawns. Mary and Joseph come back to Jerusalem, search the courtyards and annexes of the Temple and finally they find their Life! They see Jesus peacefully talking to the doctors. What a variety of feelings floods the heart of Mary. On the one side immense joy because She has found the Child safe and whole, on the other gratitude to God for having granted them again the possession of their Child. Feelings too of admiration and astonishment on seeing their Child, always so modest and humble, entering into public discussion with the doctors of the Law and teaching them. What was the meaning of it all?
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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