CMP Review 2026-05-31

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With the exception of St. Luke’s account of Jesus in the temple, the Gospels are virtually silent about the childhood of our Saviour. This has prompted many of the faithful across the centuries to contemplate what the boyhood of our Lord might have been like. Charlotte Mason is among those who have pondered.

How did Jesus learn to read and write? How did He relate to other children? How did He respond to adults, and how did He view the Holy Scriptures? Mason contemplates these and similar questions in her poem “Christ grows up in Galilee.”

In one sense, “no royal road To manhood’s slow experience eased His way,” she writes. And yet in another sense, His youth was unlike any other. For He was not only the Saviour of the world He was also its Creator. Ponder with Charlotte Mason as you read or hear her devotional poem, and imagine the eyes of the Man who “would look on these with Artist’s eye As on the finished picture wrought by Him!” Find it here.

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