When Our Lady and St. Joseph finally find the Savior in the Temple, after looking for Him for three days, His Mother very understandably says, "Son, why hast Thou done so to us?"

Abbot Gueranger, OSB, in his classic work, The Liturgical Year vol. 3,  offers this inspirational thought:

"The Good Shepherd, who feeds His sheep with His own Flesh, replies, that He must needs do the Will of His Father Who is in Heaven. He is come to be our Life, our light, and our food: He, therefore, leaves everything in order to give Himself to us. But, whilst the Doctors in the Temple only saw and heard Him, we, in this living Bread [of Holy Communion], possess Him and are united with Him in sweetest union."

So, once again using our method of finding a few words to repeat in meditation...we could pull out the words, "He leaves everything to give Himself to us"....or "We are united with Him in sweetest union in Holy Communion"....

How much He has done for us! Can we not give Him a little something in return?