Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary - Luke 2: 41-51

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Luke 2: 41-51 - 'Mary stored up all of these things in her heart.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 534 (in 'The Mysteries of Jesus' Hidden Life') - The finding of Jesus in the temple is the only event that breaks the silence of the Gospels about the hidden years of Jesus. Here Jesus lets us catch a glimpse of the mystery of his total consecration to a mission that flows from his divine sonship: "Did you not know that I must be about my Father's work?" Mary and Joseph did not understand these words, but they accepted them in faith. Mary "kept all these things in her heart" during the years Jesus remained hidden in the silence of an ordinary life.

- 583 (in 'Jesus and the temple') - Like the prophets before him Jesus expressed the deepest respect for the Temple in Jerusalem. It was in the Temple that Joseph and Mary presented him forty days after his birth At the age of twelve he decided to remain in the Temple to remind his parents that he must be about his Father's business (abbreviated).

- 503 (in 'Mary's Virginal Motherhood in God's Plan') - Mary's virginity manifests God's absolute initiative in the Incarnation. Jesus has only God as Father. "He was never estranged from the Father because of the human nature which he assumed. . . He is naturally Son of the Father as to his divinity and naturally son of his mother as to his humanity, but properly Son of the Father in both natures."

- 2599 (in 'Jesus Prays') - He learns to pray in the words and rhythms of the prayer of his people, in the synagogue at Nazareth and the Temple at Jerusalem. But his prayer springs from an otherwise secret source, as he intimates at the age of twelve: "I must be in my Father's house." Here the newness of prayer in the fullness of time begins to be revealed: his filial prayer, which the Father awaits from his children, is finally going to be lived out by the only Son in his humanity, with and for men (abbreviated).

- 531 (in 'The Mysteries of Jesus' Hidden Life') - During the greater part of his life Jesus shared the condition of the vast majority of human beings: a daily life spent without evident greatness, a life of manual labour. His religious life was that of a Jew obedient to the law of God, a life in the community. From this whole period it is revealed to us that Jesus was "obedient" to his parents and that he "increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man."

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. Welcome to Daily Gospel Exegesis podcast. We're looking at the gospel
0:17.8	reading from today's Catholic Mass, as you know, if you've been following this podcast for a little while. And today we're looking at the gospel reading from today's Catholic Mass, as you know, if you've been
0:20.9	following this podcast for a little while.
0:23.7	And today we're looking at a very well-known passage from the Gospel of Luke.
0:28.2	So it's Luke chapter 2 verses 41 to 51.
0:34.2	Every year the parents of Jesus used to go to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover.
0:40.3	When he was 12 years old, they went up for the feast as usual.
0:45.3	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
0:56.3	caravan and it was only after a day's journey that they went to look for him among their relations
1:02.3	and acquaintances. When they failed to find him, they went back to Jerusalem looking for him
1:08.1	everywhere.
1:17.0	Three days later they found him in the temple, sitting among the doctors, listening to them,
1:18.7	and asking them questions.
1:24.4	And all those who heard him were astounded at his intelligence and his replies.
1:30.7	They were overcome when they saw him. And his mother said to him,
1:38.6	My child, why have you done this to us? See how worried your father and I have been, looking for you?
1:45.8	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
1:53.6	Nazareth and lived under their authority. His mother stored up all these things in her heart.
2:03.4	So let's start here at verse 41.
2:05.6	Every year the parents of Jesus used to go to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover.
2:10.7	So this is a compulsory feast for the Jews.
2:14.0	All Jewish people had to go to Passover once a year.
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