First Saturday Meditation

 5/2/15 FIRST SATURDAY MEDITATION

Asking our Mother Mary to help me to meditate this morning, my mind was brought to the loss of Jesus in the Temple. I contemplated how St. Joseph and Our Lady went to the Temple for the Feast day and how they were both separated from Jesus. I thought about how they took their eyes off of Jesus, and each of them thinking Jesus was with the other, they then left the Temple – Our Lady with the women, and St. Joseph with the men – until they met up along the path to their home. Realizing He was not with the other, they returned to Jerusalem to look for Him. How many times we take the eyes of our souls off of Jesus and go away from Him, and how long does it take us to return to Him.

Leaving the Temple, Our Lady went with the other women and St. Joseph went with the men, meeting somewhere along the path towards their home. Each thinking Jesus was with the other, upon meeting they realized they had lost Jesus. They immediately returned to Jerusalem to look for Him. Searching for Him for three days they returned to the Temple and there they found Him. Jesus waits for us in the Temple of our hearts and in the Temple of His Church, but do we search for Him? I thought about how it was that they could lose Him, and realized it was not He who left them – it was they who left Him. And so He says to us, “I never leave you. It is always you who leave me.”

Jesus, help us to never take the eyes of our hearts and souls off of You!

Lynne Bauer, JMJ