Luke’s Gospel contains most of what we know about Jesus’ early life, what is known as the infancy narrative. But as Luke was not an apostle, how come he alone has these accounts on annunciation, visitation, birth, presentation in the Temple and more? Tradition has it he knew Mary, for only she could be the source of much of this information. The Gospel today is a good example: the finding of Jesus, now aged 12, in the Temple having been missing for several days. We cannot imagine the worry of his parents; we can imagine their joy when they found him. We cannot imagine the worries that we gave our parents. But I sincerely hope that we have given them joy too.
