The Holy Gospel appointed for this First Sunday after Christmas was chosen to help us understand the development of that Holy Child whose birth we have just celebrated with joy and high delight. However, in Bible classes pastors generally have difficulty handling the protests of mothers who think that the behavior of the twelve-year-old boy Jesus was quite reprehensible. Mothers normally contend that no matter how impressive Jesus may have been with the teachers in the Temple, he gets poor marks for the anxiety he caused both Mary and Joseph. Any parent who has experienced the trauma of worrying about a lost child for any length of time can appreciate the fact that Mary immediately faulted Jesus for what appeared to be thoughtlessness on his part in not informing his parents of his whereab…