S6E13: Searching in Sorrow and Finding Jesus in the Temple

Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Ladislaus, King of Hungary, offers prayers for Julie and all the sorrowful, lonely, and broken-hearted of the world. We beg the intercession of St. Bernadette of Lourdes, who knew such sorrow in life and was promised happiness "in the other [world]". Today's reflection is on the Finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple, and how our sorrows are often accompanied with joy in this life or glorify God, drawing us nearer our goal of our eternal happiness - it is Christ, the Head of His Body, which moves us, His members, to serve His Will. We sorrow where we resist this will, or where we do not understand it, but we may rejoice that we are His, and it is His Will for us to share in the eternal happiness of His Kingdom, if we will but accept that Will.