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Finding In The Temple (Christ Among The Doctors)

from Meditationes Vitae Christi I -Generation and Childhood Of Christ- by Alvaro Barcala

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In this musical meditation, the first three minutes evoke the three days in which Mary and Joseph "lost" the child Jesus, which prefigures the three days Jesus was in the sepulchre too and the pain Mary will have during the passion.

You can imagine how much pain Mary had while looking for his son, mostly knowing his son was God and she had such a big responsibility. Personally it evokes too the time in which we don't find Jesus in our heart and we desperately search him as if he were lost and we don't find him.

Then after those three minutes (that represent the three days) a little short melody comes evoking the question of Mary to Jesus, why he has done that, why he has not told them he would remain in the Temple those days. The melody is still a bit painful but not resentful, I imagine Mary was very gentle and humble when asking. There is a conflict here between the respect Jesus should have had for his parents and the will of God that commanded Jesus to stay in the Temple those days. But that “conflict” is approached by Mary with humility and love, despite her pain, so that trying to resolve it and because she knows her son is God. That is, in the moments we have spiritual conflicts we should trust the will of God and be humble.

Then it comes the third part, the reply of Jesus... He is wondering how it is posible they didn't figure out he was with his godly Father in the Temple, we all should know he is the son of God and we shouldn't look for Jesus anywhere else but in God, in heavenly “things” not in worldly things.

It is the first time he makes an statement referring himself as celestial and gives a public celestial answer. And he did that being 12 years old. So I made a melody with a celestial character in which 12 voices start to sound progressively as One. All those voices are of every age and sounding at the same time, for Jesus is atemporal and eternal, he has no beginning and no end.

This melody of 12 voices symbolizes too the moment in which we find Jesus in our heart (God’s Temple) and he asks us why we have looked for him in other places and not in God... So we hear 12 celestial voices in our heart, as if the 12 apostles and the 12 tribes of Israel would sing too, all of it to tell us that it is not Jesus who was lost but us, and that he is not from this world.

After this event Jesus comes back with his worldly parents and keep doing the normal habits of his religious community. Despite being God Jesus is humble and follows the laws, even though he didn’t need them because he was already divine. That is: Even in the case we have some sporadic personal mystic experience, we should be humble and keep doing the canonic habits in our church community. Even Jesus, being God, did it as an act of humility and to exemplify.

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Alvaro Barcala Madrid, Spain

Artist and composer. Barcala bases his compositions mostly on the piano, going through a range of sounds from post- classical, ambient and experimental.

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