St. Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, sermon “Jesus Twelve Years Old”: “Say to me, O My Most Sweet Lady, Mother of My Lord, what then was your state of soul, what wonder, what joy was yours, when you found this most sweet Son, the Lord Jesus, not among other boys, but in the midst of the Doctors: when you observed the eyes of all upon Him: when great and small, learned alike and unlearned, were astonished at His wisdom and His answers. I found Him, She says, Whom my soul loveth: I held Him: and I will not let Him go (Cant. III. 4). Hold Him fast, O Sweet Lady: hold Whom thou lovest, and with multiplied delights make up the three days that were lost.”