Codex Lumea

Our Lady of Loreto

(Translation of the Holy Family home from

Nazareth to Loreto, Italy)

10 December

(The Mass of Mary is offered today)

Prayer

“O Holy House of Nazareth

Humble Abode, blessed by the LORD,

May we and our refuges be blessed too!”

Reading

LK 2:41-51

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

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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 favour before God and man.