St Peters Orthodox Church

St. Paul writes to us in Philippians 2 that we are to have the same mind of Christ; that is, His nature to lower Himself to raise the souls of all upward. This is Christ's virtue of self-emptying humility. We see this in our Gospel reading today from St. Luke 2 as a 12-year-old Jesus is in the Temple. Today we consider Christ our Passover obediently keeping the Feast of Passover. We see the humility of Christ when He sat with the teachers in the Temple. And we see the self-emptying nature of Christ Who created Joseph and the Blessed Virgin Mary subjecting Himself to those He has created. It is a challenging wonder when we consider the self-emptying love and nature of Christ our God; a virtue to which we are graced to become.