Family Theater: The Finding in the Temple

Family Theater presents Anne Blythe, Jeff Chandler, Joan Evans and Marina Koschez. That's fine. As the last of its special holiday program, the Mutual Network, in cooperation with Family Theater and the Catholic Daughters of America, presents the Finding in the Temple, starring Anne Blythe and Jeff Chandler, with Marina Koschez as soloist.

Joan Evans will be your hostess. And his currents were one to go every year to Jerusalem at the Feast of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast.

I was barely more than a child myself, though older than my cousin and my lord, when we made that pilgrimage to the Great Holy City. We journeyed of course in caravan, with the companies and relatives and friends, and this not alone for companionship, but of necessity.

For numerous bandits still infested the country and would continue to do so for many years. Thus we traveled every Passover, Cleophus my father, and my mother whose name was Mary too. My three brothers, James and Joseph and Simon.

We were related to Jesus, but of his identity and mission we did not dream. And I am Jude Thaddeus. And I called Joseph and my Lady Mary, my uncle and my aunt. I remember how we young boys looked forward to the journey.

All of our people up to that time had been commanded by the most high to eat the Pasch and worship at the temple on this great feast, memorial of our nation's deliverance from Egypt. 30 years later, when we boys were grown, we would eat another Pasch in Jerusalem.

He would take the unleavened bread of the feast into his holy and venerable hands, and with his eyes lifted up to heaven, to guard his father, and giving thanks. My divine kinsman would break it and give it to us his disciples now, saying, Take and eat ye all of this, or this is my body, and taking a cup of wine into his hands and giving thanks to his father.