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Please share your favorite meditations for praying this mystery.
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When I pray this mystery I think about Jesus allowing Mary and Joseph to search for Him. It would have been so easy for Him to tell them where He was going, but He chose to let them search. It reminds me that He permits suffering because we also need to search for Him.
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MrsM wrote:
| When I pray this mystery I think about Jesus allowing Mary and Joseph to search for Him. It would have been so easy for Him to tell them where He was going, but He chose to let them search. It reminds me that He permits suffering because we also need to search for Him. |
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I have never thought of it this way. Thank you for your insight!
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When I think of this mystery, my mind focuses on those wise words of Our Lady, "Son, why hast thou dost so to us? Behold, your father and I have sought thee sorrowing." Why, O Lord--this has been my very same question, as it has been for many of us, I'm sure. And the times when I have searched for Our Lord and felt like I was coming up empty--I can certainly relate to Our Lady's questions here. How fair they seem in light of the pain and fear she and St. Joseph had just experienced.
But Our Lord's answer to her is the same as it is to us--"Did you not know I must be in my father's house?" or "Did you not know I must be about my father's business" If we search for the Lord, there is one sure place to find him: in the Eucharist, in the tabernacle, in the Mass. He is always there waiting for us in the Host, and we can always find Him there, without fail.
And he is always about his Father's business, no matter how strange that "business" may seem to us. Mary "understood not the word that he spoke," but she accepted it and moved forward, caring for the Christ Child and raising him in grace. I have taken so much comfort in Mary's confusion here about God's Will, as I am so often confused myself. I look to her to teach me how to accept and move forward, to trust in God's plan, to "ponder it" alongside her.
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I'm not sure where I saw it - thought it was here, but someone pointed out that this is both one of the joyful mysteries and also one of the seven sorrows of Mary -opposite emotions expressed in the same event. I just read this article by Mary Ellen on Catholic Exchange. It is very sad, but profound and a good meditation on this mystery.
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Mary thank you so much for sharing these incredible, grace-filled words of Mary Ellen's.
I think of persistent searching and so I apply that to the things in life I need to search for and not give up on ~ there are many things so it is a very fruitful mystery for me.
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