Finding Jesus at the Temple. What were they talking about? - The Transfixion - Bk5 - Ch5
The Venerable Sister Mary of Jesus of Ágreda describes the conversation in the Temple of Jerusalem. Jesus was asking questions, but to instruct, not to be instructed. The Blessed Virgin Mary reminds us that uncertainty and a longing for the Lord serves a purpose saying, "The Lord absented Himself from me in order that, seeking Him in sorrow and tears, I might find Him again in joy and with abundant fruits for my soul. I desire that you imitate me in this mystery and seek Him with such earnestness, as to be consumed with a continual longing without ever in your whole life coming to any rest until you hold Him and can lose Him no more (Canticles 5:4). In order that you may understand better this sacrament of the Lord, remember, that the infinite Wisdom made men capable of his eternal felicity and placed them on the way to this happiness, but left them in doubt of its attainment, as long as they have not yet acquired it, and thus filled them with joyful hope and sorrowful fear of its final acquisition."
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