JANUARY 17, 2016
Sunday, Feast of the
STO. NIÑO
Gospel: Luke 2:41-52.
Each year his parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom.
After they had completed its days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it.
Thinking that he was in the caravan, they journeyed for a day and looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances, but not finding him, they returned to Jerusalem to look for him.
After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions, and all who heard him were astounded at his understanding and his answers.
When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety.” And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”
But they did not understand what he said to them.
He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart.
And Jesus advanced (in) wisdom and age and favor before God and man.
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
Mary and Joseph sported forgiving hearts. We see this in their reaction to Jesus’ explanation why he got lost. Their anxiety, or perhaps indignant disappointment at having to return to the Temple to look for Jesus, did not get the upper hand. They did not understand Jesus’ explanation that he had to be in his Father’s house. Yet they pondered everything in their hearts.
On our part, forgiveness is not that easy to exercise even where our loved ones are involved. But it will help us our exercise forgiveness if we see it in the light of the Godly acts of mercy and compassion. Compassion does not focus on guilt (mercy takes care of this) but on the fact that the erring person may be a victim of circumstances such as his upbringing, his past and present circumstances, and some threatening factors.
When we find it hard to forgive it is probably because we focus on the guilt of the other person. Try focusing on compassion and see the person as victim of circumstances. Then in humility think of the possibility that it could have been you in the other person’s stead were God not kinder to you. With the help of the Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, the wellsprings of mercy and compassion no brother or sister will ever be too heavy to carry.— Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email: dan.delosangeles@gmail.com. Website: www.frdan.org.
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