Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius · 47 of 80

Mysteries: Christ in the Temple at Twelve

OF THE COMING OF CHRIST TO THE TEMPLE WHEN HE WAS OF THE AGE OF TWELVE YEARS St. Luke writes in the second Chapter [42-51]. First Point. First: Christ our Lord, of the age of twelve years, went up from Nazareth to Jerusalem. Second Point. Second: Christ our Lord remained in Jerusalem, and His parents did not know it. Third Point. Third: The three days passed, they found Him disputing in the Temple, and seated in the midst of the doctors, and His parents asking Him where He had been, He answered: “`Did you not know that it behooves Me to be in the things which are My Father’s?’”