Feast of the Holy Family

Shades of Home Alone!

Mary and Joseph  went three days without noticing that Jesus was gone.

And then they ran around frantically looking for Him.

Exasperated, they finally found Jesus in the Temple. 

And when they asked Him where have you been?

Jesus replied, “Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

How many days, months even years do people go without noticing that God is not there in their life. 

And then when they do,

they run around frantically looking for God and do not know where to find Him. 

They search on the beach, the sunset and the mountainside. 

In physical pleasure and material things. 

Until one day they darken the doors of a church. 

And then when they find God, they blame God for being gone.

Just like Mary and Joseph, 

They question where God has been. 

God however has not been hiding, and God is not lost.

He is here!

Here in the Scriptures speaking to us. 

Here on this altar in His Body and Blood.

Here in the Tabernacle everyday waiting for someone to come and find him. 

The search is over 

He has been here all along;

In His Father’s House;

Just as He told us!