Looking up to Jesus in his

growing -up Years lk 2: 41-52

THE FINDING OF JESUS IN THE
TEMPLE
Luke narrates the incident
at the temple of Jerusalem
when Jesus was
twelve. Again the
story is symbolic and
reveals to us that Jesus
was brought up as a
 practicing Jew, and thus,
when he was already of age
He accompanied
Mary and Joseph
to attend temple
worship. Even as a boy
of twelve, Jesus was
already aware of his special
relation to God the Father.
In the finding of Jesus in
temple, we get a
glimpse of Jesus’ sense
of a special mission that
that flowed from his
 unique relation to God:
“Did you not know that
I must be in my
Father’s house?
( Lk 2:49 ) yet luke
closes his story by
describing how Jesus
returned to Nazareth with
Mary and Joseph and was
obedience to them.
Jesus advanced in
wisdom and age and
favor before God and man.
Jesus obedience to his
human parents shows Jesus
as the model of obedience
to parents’
authority as
asserted in the “Fourth
Commandment.” Jesus’
obedience to Joseph
and Mary was part of his
fulfilling his mission a
visible sign of his
relationship with
God. Jesus obedience
in the daily routine of His
hidden life was already
 inaugurating His work of
restoring what Adam’s
disobedience had
destroyed (Rom 5:15)
“ “I came down from
heaven not to do my own
will but the will the one
who sent me.”(Jn.6:38)
THE MESSAGE OF THE HIDDEN YEARS
The fact that the Gospels
are “silent” on these
years in Jesus’ life is
a message itself.
Young people today
live in an environment
of constant noise.
Jesus hidden life at Nazareth
allows us to enter into
fellowship with Him
by means of most
ordinary events in our
daily life. Pope Paul VI
described the home of
Nazareth as the school
in which we begin to
understand the life
of Jesus narrated
in the Gospels.
“Three lessons
are clear:
 First,
The
Lesson
Of
“Silence”
 As we grow toward
maturity, we learn to
esteem silence a
an indispensable
and admirable
quality of the mind.
Second,
a lesson
in
Family
 Nazareth can teach
us what family life
is really about:
communion of
love, with austere
and simple beauty.
 Third,
a
lesson
in
work.
Nazareth was the home
of the “Carpenters Son”
in whom we come
to understand
and exercise the
redeeming law of
human work.
 ACTIVITY 6
Activity Title: Jesus growing up and
hidden years
Learning Target: To know the events of
Jesus growing up and
hidden life in Nazareth
References: Called to Meet Christ
in Scripture, Church, and Sacraments
Author : Ester V Frago and
Josephine C. Dango
Page Number/s: 169 – 170
 CONCEPT NOTES
The hidden life of Jesus
represented his human
formative stage,
which is similar to
the stage any young
person go through.
Jesus, as the embodied
Word of God ( Jn 1:14 ),
was obedient to his
human parents.
He advanced in
wisdom and age and
favor before God and
man” ( Lk 2:52 ). This shows
adolescent believers
today depth of such
values as silence,
creative obedience,
unassuming work, and
simple family life.
Write the T if the sentence is TRUE
and F if the sentence FALSE.

____ 1. Jesus lost when

he was 12 years old.
_____ 2. In the finding of
Jesus in the temple we get a
glimpse of Jesus’ sense of a
special mission that flowed
from his unique relation
to God.
___ 3. Jesus as the
model of obedience
to parents’ authority
as asserted in the
“ fifth commandment”.
____ 4. Jesus obedience to
his parents shows in
Luke Gospel as the
model of obedience.
___ 5. “Did you know that
I must be in my Fathers’
house”? Jesus shows
his Unique relationship
to God.
____6. Jesus’
obedience to
Joseph and Mary was
part of His fulfilling
authority and a visible
 sign of his relationship
with God.
___ 7. His hidden
life was already
inaugurating his work of
restoring what Adam’s
disobedience had destroy.
____ 8. The message of the
hidden years in the Gospels
are “silent” on these years
in Jesus’ life.
____ 9. Jesus hidden
life at Jerusalem allows us
to enter into fellowship
with him.
____ 10. Pope Paul IV
described the home of
Nazareth as the
school in which
we begin to
understand the life
of Jesus.
___ 11. There are three
lessons are clear to
understand the
life of Jesus that
narrated in the Gospels.
____ 12. The First lesson
narrated in the Gospel
 is “work.”
____ 13. The second lesson
is “family life” it
tells about the
communion of life.
___ 14. The lesson in work
tells about the home
of the “Carpenter’s Son”
to understand the law
of human work.
___ 15. We learn to
esteem silence as an
indispensable and
admirable quality
of the mind according
to the “first lesson.”