Why does the Catholic Church not recognize the lost years of Jesus Christ?

Answer 1

Roman Catholic AnswerThe Church discusses the little that is known about Our Blessed Lord's hidden life in sections 531-534 of the Catechism. Pope Paul VI, of happy memory, preached about Our Blessed Savior's hidden life in a famous sermon given on the Feast of the Holy Family when He was visiting Nazareth in January of 1964:The home of Nazareth is the school where we begin to understand the life of Jesus - the school of the Gospel. First, then, a lesson of silence. May esteem for silence, that admirable and indispensable condition of mind, revive in us . . . A lesson on family life. May Nazareth teach us what family life is, its communion of love, its austere and simple beauty, and its sacred and inviolable character . . . A lesson of work, Nazareth, home of the "Carpenter's son," in you I would choose to understand and proclaim the severe and redeeming law of human work . . . To conclude, I want to greet all the workers of the world, holding up to them their great pattern, their brother who is God. (Paul VI at Nazareth, January 5, 1964: Liturgy of the Hours, Feast of the Holy Family, Office of Readings.)