Nowadays we can hear anywhere how difficult is to be a parent. Generations are changing so fast that it is becoming a challenge to adjust to the next one. If Jesus was following the will of God, in the present, young people usually do not ponder on it, not even for political and social issues.

In the gospel of Luke today we can see Jesus behaving strangely, we can say weirdly, since that was not the common behavior of the youth of his time, as well. He remained behind, in the temple, listening and asking questions to the teachers. And He was sure that He was right: “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?” (Lk. 2: 49). Humanly speaking that was difficult to be understood, no wonder why they were astonished and with anxiety.

We can learn in this gospel, the seriousness of responding to the call of God and the care of parents for their children, a good parenting. We are invited to reflect on how we accompany people today to bring them to the key questions for life, sense of life, responsibility as a catholic person, personal answer to the call of God…

Fr. Palau spent his life looking for his beloved thing, the Church, until he discovered her and dedicated the rest of his life to serve her, “Now I am going to begin another stage of life and a very different way of proceeding before God and in my relations with the Church. And it consists in this: having found the beloved object, the spirit is not occupied in seeking for it, so its energies must be used to serve it and to fulfil the mission which the heavenly Father thinks fit to give me with respect to it”. (MR 8, 24).

Somehow, Fr. Palau and all the saints are weird because they are connected with the divine. Let us connect with God to follow His will upon our lives, and let us become bridges for bringing others to the other side, from human to divine. Weird as we can become, that is the result of becoming divine little by little.

May the feast day of the Sto. Niño help us to fly high to the divine, who is dwelling inside us, and not to remain in the external folklore of children’s dances celebrating this occasion.