Comments on: Saturday 6/20 Typical Teenagers

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 13:44:40 +0000

Julie — It has been a while. Welcome back! It is good to have you back. Lovely reflection, as always. I look forward to reading more of your reflections again! God bless you!

By: Brigid

Brigid — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 01:35:24 +0000

Thanks for your insights on this Gospel reading. Sometimes, reading it, I see a twelve-year-old kid from a small town who gets himself lost in a big city. Maybe he goes up to the Temple for one last look, but after he struggles through the thousands of departing pilgrims to the campsite where they were staying (I doubt Joseph and Mary had a Jerusalem townhome) there’s nobody there. Any twelve-year-old would be scared. He’s in a strange place with no food, no shelter, no one to care for or about him. There’s no Covenant House, no soup kitchen, no police station – it’s ‘Home Alone’ without the home. For three days. Three days. Sleeping rough, scrounging food wherever he can, never feeling safe. And when his parents find him his first reaction is, Mom, Dad, why didn’t you look here first, where else could I be?
All the same, when they got back to Nazareth, I bet he didn’t step out of line in the least, for a very, very long time.
It’s a possibility.
The moral of the story: when a homeless person seems a bit pushy when asking for change, remember you have a home to go to. They don’t.

By: Robin Rego

Robin Rego — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 16:08:57 +0000

Well written, Julie, and punctuated with your characteristic humor at just the right times. You develop your article to end with the main point that “maybe, just maybe it helps us understand Him a little better too.” Thank you for using your God given talents to help us come to know Him better.

By: ken

ken — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 15:52:08 +0000

thks for the word be blessed

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 15:15:25 +0000

Welcome back Julie! I have missed your reflections. Thanks for this reflection.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 14:20:22 +0000

Missed your writing, welcome back.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 14:03:36 +0000

Welcome back Julie.I have often pondered whether the relationship between Jesus and his mother Mary was the same as every other mother and son relationship.Surely not!
I realise now that the pure love Mary had for Jesus,is the same love that she has for each one of us.We can turn to her with all our needs and she will intercede for us.What a comforting thought.

By: Angie

Angie — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 13:51:56 +0000

A Julie Young Saturday reflection on today’s reading is just what I needed today. What a treat! Welcome back, we have missed you.