After the Holy Family had completed all festival custom according to the feast of Passover, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem. He did not return home with His parents. It might be possible that He had been beset with a crowd who demanded more Words of Wisdom from Him. They were so enthusiastic to quest for the Absolute Truth that they kept Him in their midst. His parents, Mary and Joseph, did not know His whereabouts.

Jesus was not having no knowledge that His parents were anxiously looking for Him. It was simply because He was so engrossed in His hearty cordial love for the people that He chose to leave His parents momentarily and stayed with the crowd.

“Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?” (Luke 2:49)

For His Father’s house, Jesus did not mean the fabulous and meticulously decorated Holy Temple. He was actually depicting that it should be the people who inclined to live within His Father’s will. The Church He later established is a house of big family; surpassing the blood relationship of one’s family and transcending beyond all races of mankind and their respective culture.

We have to thank Our Lord for His Grace that we could join and be part of this big family of the Holy Catholic Church. We must, at all time, strive to keep Jesus around us in our midst.