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Fr. John's Corner
Father John’s Corner
"Weddings, Wine & Cana"
If there’s any time we rehearse for something, it’s weddings. Wedding rehearsals often take about an hour. That’s if everyone shows up on time. It unfolds methodically and to the beat of the wedding coordinator and the presider. Anything that’s worth getting right, deserves a rehearsal. Today’s gospel reading has the famous wedding at Cana. I’ve always wondered if there was a rehearsal. We’ve all heard it several times before and are familiar with the story line and we believe this was Jesus’ first miracle: “Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs at Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory…”
Tradition has this miracle at the 3rd Epiphany of Jesus. The first was the manifestation to the Gentiles and the world in Bethlehem with the visitation of the Magi. The second was at his Baptism in the Jordan, which we heard last week and which revealed his mission. The third and final manifestation of Jesus we hear today, reveals his “glory.” And because of this act, “his disciples began to believe in him.”
Wedding wine, in ancient times, was more important than modern air conditioning on a hot summer day in Tallahassee. Imagine the complaints I would hear if for some reason the ac went out in August during a wedding. The embarrassment of running out of wine at this wedding is what prompted Mary to ask Jesus to intervene? Now…why would people ask the rector and not the maintenance man to fix the ac when it’s hot? I don’t know, but they actually do. With Cana and STM, maybe it’s because they both realize each has some authority over matters they know each can perform and they each expect results.
We expect results from God when we come to Him. Even his mother expected results and she was not disappointed. “My hour has not yet come ,” Jesus says. That glorious hour was when his blood would flow from his side upon the cross and become the source of life we have during Mass. Our ceremonious wine becomes his blood that saves us. “Do whatever he tells you ” Mary says of her son. And the Church has been striving to listen to Him for 2,000 years now. I think Mary had some good advice.
Cheers,
Fr. John -
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