After a time, Jesus returned to Nazareth, his hometown, with his disciples1. There his Mother was waiting for him with immense joy. Perhaps it was the first time that those first followers of the Master knew the place where the life of Jesus had developed; and in Mary's house they would recover their strength. The Virgin would be particularly attentive to them; she would serve them as no one had ever done before.
In Nazareth everyone knows Jesus. They know him by his trade and by the family to which he belongs, like everyone else: he is the craftsman, the son of Mary. As happens to so many in life, the Lord followed the trade of the one who was his father here on earth. That is why he is also called the son of the craftsman2; he had the profession of Joseph, who had already died, perhaps years ago. His family, which guarded the greatest of treasures, the Word of God made man, was one more among those of the neighborhood, loved and appreciated by all. "The Incarnate Word himself wished to share in this human solidarity. He took part in the wedding feast at Cana, invited himself to the house of Zacchaeus, ate with publicans and sinners. He revealed the love of the Father and the lofty vocation of man, making use of the most ordinary realities of social life and making use of the language and images of the most commonplace existence
He sanctified human relations, especially family relations, from which social relations spring, being voluntarily one more subject of the laws of his homeland. He led a life identical to that of any worker of his time and region "3.
Jesus must have spent several days at his Mother's house, visiting other relatives and acquaintances.... And when the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue. The people of Nazareth were amazed. One who had built them furniture and farm implements, who had repaired them when they broke down, spoke to them with great authority and wisdom, as no one had ever done before. They only see in him what is human, what they had observed for thirty years: the most complete normality. It is difficult for them to discover the Messiah behind this "normality".
The occupation of the Virgin was also that of any housewife of her time, with her peculiar way of speaking, typical of Galilean women, with the simple and common way of dressing of that region. All the same as other women... except, of course, her love for God, which could never be equaled.
Joseph's workshop, which Jesus would later inherit, was like the others existing at that time in Palestine. Perhaps it was the only one in Nazareth. It smelled of wood and cleanliness. Joseph charged the usual; perhaps he gave more facilities to those who were in economic difficulties, but he charged what was fair.
The work carried out in that small workshop was typical of the trade, in which a little bit of everything was done: building a beam, making a simple cupboard, repairing a table that was out of place, fixing a door that did not fit properly.... Wooden crosses were not made there, as some pious engravings show us: who would order such an object from them? Nor did they import the wood from heaven, but from the neighboring forests.
The inhabitants of Nazareth were scandalized by Him. Our Lady was not. She knows well that her son is the Son of God. She looks at Him with immense love and boundless admiration. She understands him well.
Meditation on this passage, which indirectly reflects the previous life of Jesus in Nazareth, helps us to examine whether our ordinary life, full of work and normality, is a path to holiness, as was that of the Holy Family. It will be so if we try to carry it out with human perfection, with honesty and, at the same time, with faith and supernatural sense. We must not forget that, by remaining in our place, we earn Heaven and help the whole Church and the whole of humanity with our work here on earth.
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