Happy 4th Day of Christmas! The sun came out around 1 PM and showed off the snow that we have been accumulating. This farm is always photogenic. (Clicking on the picture enlarges it.)
I continued to read and reflect on "Finding Jesus in the Temple." Father Ray Brown's little booklet from long ago, An Adult Christ at Christmas, and Luke Timothy Johnson's fairly recent commentary on Luke for the Sacra Pagina series were both helpful.
Luke tells the story so that the heart of it is verse 49. Brown translates it the same as the lectionary, "Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" Johnson prefers, "Did you not know that I must involve myself in my Father's affairs?' The Greek seems to imply "things," but there is no noun after the article "the." In any case it seems that the point of the story is that Jesus is referring to God as his Father. Up until this point in Luke's Gospel it has been others who have been saying that he is divine. Here Jesus says it himself.
I'm not sure how a homily on this Gospel would focus on the Holy Family. A sermon might focus on how Jesus as God and son makes the family holy and how God living in each one of our family can make our family holy. (A homily is developed from the meaning of the Scripture passage; a sermon can be on any topic, no matter what the scripture readings.)
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