CCC 583
Profession of Faith›SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS›CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD›Paragraph 1. JESUS AND ISRAEL
Like the prophets before him Jesus expressed the deepest respect for the Temple in Jerusalem. It was in the Temple that Joseph and Mary presented him forty days after his birth. At the age of twelve he decided to remain in the Temple to remind his parents that he must be about his Father's business. He went there each year during his hidden life at least for Passover. His public ministry itself was patterned by his pilgrimages to Jerusalem for the great Jewish feasts.
Footnotes
- ⇒ Lk 2:22-39.
- Cf. ⇒ Lk 2 46-49.
- Cf. ⇒ Lk 2 41.
- Cf. ⇒ Jn 2 13-14; ⇒ 5:1, ⇒ 14; ⇒ 7:1, ⇒ 10, ⇒ 14; ⇒ 8 2; ⇒ 10:22-23.