The Presentation and Finding of Jesus in the Temple both foreshadow Christ’s Passion, Death and Resurrection. Here, after three days in which He is missing, He is found once more ‘in His Father’s house’. As Christ grows in wisdom and power and transforms us from within, we often experience this as a loss of ourselves; we no longer quite know what to expect of ourselves, where we ought to turn, how we should act in certain situations. This mystical dying and rising finds its meaning when we find ourselves in God’s house, either in the liturgy of the Church, or in fervent interior prayer.