<p class="title_brown">V Mystery</p>

<p class="subtitle_brown">The loss and finding of Jesus in the Temple</p>

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We contemplate the mystery of the <em>loss and finding of Jesus in the Temple</em>, meditating on the words from the Gospel according to Saint Luke:</p>

<p class="quote">After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it.<br />
Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. &nbsp;And all who heard Him were amazed at His understanding and His answers.<br />
[Lk 2,43.46-47]</p>

<p class="normal_text">In the middle of the wise men of his time, the Child manifests his authority. Seated in the middle of those who normally took place in the cathedra, he rises his hand to the highest, pointing to the Father. Even if the familiar bounds connect him to the things of the earth, He firmly and gently points toward the way of salvation, conscious that he was the Wisdom of the Most High [ant. vesp. 17th dec.].<br />
In Fatima, we also feel the call to concentrate in the essential: God has primacy, as reminded by the Angel and the Virgin Mary. It is the repetition of what Christ, still a child, said to those looking for Him: don&rsquo;t you know that I should be in the house of my Father?<br />
Virgin of Fatima, Lady of Wisdom, intercede for us next to Christ so that we may reach the knowledge of the things from above.</p>
