{"id":1197,"date":"2013-11-04T16:27:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T22:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2013-11-04T16:41:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T22:41:29","slug":"finding-the-child-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/catholic\/finding-the-child-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the Child Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jesus at the Temple
– by Brian Jekel<\/figcaption><\/figure>Losing, searching and discovering Jesus as a child parallels the Crucifixion, burial, Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus as an adult. Looking at the stories in the first two chapters of Luke in the order given we can see that they all are about prophecy and fulfillment. The first chapter is about announcing the births of John and Jesus before their conception. The canticles of Mary and Zechariah praise God for remembering his holy people and delivering them. Through the whole second chapter of Luke we see in the birth of Jesus, the visit of the shepherds, and the presentation of Jesus in the temple, that these sequential scripture passages identify Jesus as the messiah and foretell of things to come ((Jesus said that no sign would be given the doubting generation except that of the sign of Jonah, implying that just as Jonah spent three days swallowed up in the belly of a great fish, so too would the son of man spend three days swallowed up in the belly of the earth; His grave (Luke 11:29-30<\/span>). Therefore, the three days Jesus body lay in the tomb are a sign.)). So when it comes to the story of Jesus lost and found (Luke 2:41-52<\/span>) we should expect it to be just as foretelling.<\/p>\n

These are the similarities and contrasts between the Joyful Mystery of finding the child Jesus in the temple compared in part to the Sorrowful Mystery of the Crucifixion but mostly compared to the Glorious Mysteries of the Resurrection and Ascension:<\/p>\n