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William Holman Hunt, “The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple,” 1854 (photo: Public Domain)
By John Grondelski, National Catholic Register,
John M. Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) is former associate dean of the School of Theology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. He is especially interested in moral theology and the thought of John Paul II. [Note: All views expressed in his National Catholic Register contributions are exclusively the author’s.]
ROSARY & ART: In the Fifth Joyful Mystery, Jesus’ three days in the Temple foreshadow his Resurrection
(Luke 2:41-52)
The fifth joyful mystery was probably very joyful for Mary and Joseph. Wouldn’t you rejoice if your lost child was found after three days of not knowing where he was?
The Gospel recounts that “each year, his parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was 12 years old, they went up according to festival custom.” In Jesus’ day, while the Temple still existed, devout Jews made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to be in the Holy City for Passover, the most important feast of the Jewish year. Passover marked the liberation of the Jewish people from Egyptian slavery after God worked signs and wonders on their behalf, culminating in the death of Egypt’s firstborn. There were additional feasts that were kept on pilgrimage and, as we noted, the trip from Nazareth to Jerusalem by the means of transportation available in Jesus’ time did not make the trip easy or quick. …
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