Jesus and His Divine Mission

We know what adolescence is: agitated lakes, wild hurricanes, disconcerting impressions; the passing of a whirlwind. During those days, great novelties and deep spiritual experiences must have occurred in the innermost depths of this Young Man Jesus. Mysterious forces, not exempt from perplexities and surprises, must have stirred in him.

The Teen Jesus must have felt the whole weight of divine glory in a contrasting reality: everything in Nazareth was so plain and pedestrian, while here in Jerusalem, everything was splendor: so much splendor and so wonderful to honor the Marvelous One. The Teen Jesus then must have felt burdened by the weight of such glory, overpowered by the immense reality of God, so that, seduced and captured, he decided to remain in the temple.

“My Mother, why were you looking for me?”  My Father is my Mother. A meteor may go astray out of orbit and lose itself in sidereal space, but I live enveloped in the palm of His hand, and I cannot be lost. A link may fail and the whole chain of generations may fail, but an immortal current unites the Father and myself; and so, we are a chain without links. I will never be lost, Mother; in the sands of the desert, in the depths of the sea, in the sunny hills, I am always solitary but never alone; lost, indeed, but found at the same time.

Extracted from The book “The Poor One of Nazaret by Father Ignacio Larrañaga