In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
There is no limit, no limit to how far a man can go, and what he is capable of doing.
That he does not mind
Who gets the credit in?
The Holy Gospel the very Son of Man the Word made flesh
teaches us through his own example that
this is what real men and
real Christians therefore are made of
There is no limit to what we can do as Christians and how far we can go,
provided we do not mind who gets the credit.
Today's gospel is not unlike a rich and good wine.
The best that exists.
So complex, layered with so many notes, that we could go up and down this short gospel
and really taste all of the richness that is there contained therein.
There is no limit to what it is that we could glean from this first miracle of our Lord.
But, for today, may I highlight this single note for all of us.
the example of our Lord Jesus Christ.
This was His first public miracle.
The manifestation of His divinity to the world,
now ready to receive the redemption that they so needed.
This should have been broadcasted, podcasted,
everything possible in order that we might know and all might hear
of this very important deed in the life of our Divine Lord.
in his redemptive incarnation.
Notice how he did this first miracle with discretion.
and with humility.
Notice in the Gospel that when the chief steward tasted the water made into good wine, he went to the bridegroom, the host of our Lord himself, there at the feast.
And he said to him,
You have given us the good wine now.
You have saved for us the good wine when usually
you put out the good wine first
and then you served them the swill afterward
to think that you would have more to give.
But no, you, the bridegroom,
our host, has saved the good wine until now.
Everyone that knew what Jesus had done, knew who deserved the credit, and our Lord allowed the credit to be given to his host as a guest in his house.
The deference, the delicacy, the humility and the charity of our Lord in this first miracle where He would give us water turned into wine.
St. Augustine comments that this
is a miracle most certainly, but is it not also a miracle
that God has created the universe in such a way that when the rain falls on the ground,
nourishes the vines, produces the grapes, allows man to take those grapes,
to crush them, to squash them, and to produce juice,
and then allow us to ferment those grapes.
that juice and that that process would give us the wonderful drink of wine that gladdens
our hearts and makes warm what was once cold.
This miracle teaches us something about God Himself.
But he is not a perfectionist.
God is perfect.
And he is not a perfectionist.
He allows us to do things for him.
He knows that he could do them better than we can.
He knows that he's perfect and everything that he could do,
he could do it himself and it would be perfect.
But he wants us to be a part of his perfection.
He wants to extend to us the opportunity and the invitation to be a part of his redemption.
Began there in the creche, continued throughout his public ministry,
which he began at the wedding feast of Cana.
then would continue to the cross where he would shed all of his blood, all of
every last drop, in order that we would be redeemed.
and that we would be a part of His redemption and that we would help redeem other people.
This is the mystery of the economy of the mystical body of Christ,
the one holy Roman Catholic and apostolic church,
the mystical bride of Christ,
outside of whom there is no salvation, because this is what God has given to us as our participation
to save souls, to bring them into this family, to bring them into this feast, this wedding
feast, that make no mistake about it, there is a reason why our Lord chose a wedding,
a marriage.
in order to manifest his first miracle.
He is the Lord of heaven and earth, the creator of all things,
and the king of the universe, who from the very beginning
created holy matrimony, a one man, one woman.
to be forever, together, in order that they may promulgate the human species
and therefore populate the kingdom of heaven
through the sacraments, through prayer, and through a Christian life of virtue.
This is what he has asked us to participate in.
And like making good wine, it takes time.
It takes patience. It takes perseverance.
And in all things, our lady, when we turn to her,
we notice that she says two things.
She tells our Lord what we need,
and then she tells us whatever he tells you,
by the graces that we receive in the sacraments,
by the special graces that we receive on this particular day in the liturgical
year.
Let us take a lesson also from the liturgy. Consider
the first miracle of our Lord and the Holy Church
asks us to put back on the green vestments.
of simply, you might say, the time throughout the year or the time after the Epiphany,
the humility that we would not rejoice in white or gold as we have these past weeks,
but rather that she would ask us to adopt the humility of her Lord
in order that his miracle might take the first rank.
To contemplate this miracle this miracle of creation this miracle of redemption and
Ultimately the miracle of our sanctification whereby God takes the ordinary
water of our human lives and existence and wishes to by our cooperation and our
Obedience to his commands
transform it, transubstantiate it into the living water, the wine of eternal salvation,
which He offers to us on the holy altar, transubstantiated into His most precious blood,
in order that we would be nourished now and unto life everlasting. Amen.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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