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[Emoke Greschik]

Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Luke 2:41-51






*Friends, today’s Gospel tells the familiar story of Mary and Joseph
finding twelve-year-old Jesus in the Temple. When they find him, they
upbraid him with understandable exasperation: "Child, why have you treated
us like this?" But Jesus responds, "Did you not know that I must be in my
Father’s house?" The story conveys a truth that runs sharply counter to our
sensibilities: even the most powerful familial emotions must, in the end,
give way to mission. Though she felt an enormous pull in the opposite
direction, Mary let her Son go, allowing him to find his vocation in the
Temple. Legitimate sentiment devolves into sentimentality precisely when it
comes to supersede the call of God. On a biblical reading, the family is,
above all, the forum in which both parents and children are able to discern
their missions. It is perfectly good, of course, if deep bonds and rich
emotions are cultivated within the family, but those relationships and
passions must cede to something that is more fundamental, more enduring,
more spiritually focused. The paradox is this: precisely in the measure
that everyone in the family focuses on God’s call for one another, the
family becomes more loving and peaceful.*
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