Newsletter – The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph

REFLECTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE – by Lisa-Marie Calderone-Stewart

Picture yourself in Jesus’ situation. You have been sightseeing with your parents at the festival in the big city, and your parents are on their way home. They have been travelling for a day and cannot find you. They turn around, walk back to the city and search for you for three days before they find you talking to the priests in a church!

What would your parents say to you? What would you say to them? How much trouble would you be in? Where would you have stayed for those days you hadn’t seen them? What would you have been thinking?

Is it fun to think that Jesus ‘got in trouble’ with his parents too? Sometimes we get so hung up on Jesus as Almighty God that we forget about Jesus as a human being. What other things do you think Jesus must have done as he grew up – things we don’t usually think about, things not recorded in the Bible?

© St Mary’s Press
Lisa-Marie Calderone-Stewart (1958-2011) gained her doctorate in education from Cardinal Stritch University and was associate director of early adolescent ministry in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Previously she served for six years as the director of youth ministry for the Diocese of Grand Island, Nebraska. She also established “Tomorrow’s Present”, a youth leadership ministry. She was a highly regarded speak and wrote many books on spirituality and youth ministry.