Sunday, 20 January 2013
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
Week of prayer for Christian unity
St. Sebastian, Martyr (c. 257-c. 288)
Commentary of the day
Saint Maximus of Turin : The new wine of true joy
Reading
Jn 2:1-11.
There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.
When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."
(And) Jesus said to her, "Woman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come."
His mother said to the servers, "Do whatever he tells you."
Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings, each holding twenty to thirty gallons.
Jesus told them, "Fill the jars with water." So they filled them to the brim.
Then he told them, "Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter." So they took it.
And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it came from (although the servers who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom
and said to him, "Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now."
Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs in Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him.
Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB
Commentary of the day
Saint Maximus of Turin (?-c.420), Bishop
Sermon 23 ; PL 57, 274
The new wine of true joy
It is written that our Lord went to the wedding feast to which he had been
invited. So the Son of God went to that wedding feast to sanctify by his
presence the marriage he had already instituted. He went to a wedding of
the old law to choose a bride for himself among the pagans, who would
remain for ever a virgin. He, who was not born of human wedlock, went to
the wedding. He went there, not to participate in a joyful feast, but to
make himself known by means of a truly wonderful miracle. He went there,
not to drink wine but to give it. For as soon as the guests lacked wine
blessed Mary said to him: “They have no wine”. Jesus, seemingly annoyed,
answered her: “Woman, what do you want of me?”... By responding that: “My
hour has not yet come” he was surely announcing the glorious hour of his
Passion, or else the wine shed for the salvation and life of all. Mary
asked for a temporal favor whereas Christ was preparing an eternal
joy.However, our good Lord did not hold back from granting small things
while awaiting the coming of the great. Blessed Mary, because she was truly
the mother of the Lord, saw in her mind what was about to take place and
knew beforehand the Lord's intention. That is why she carefully warned the
servants in these words: “Do whatever he tells you”. His holy mother most
certainly knew that her son and Lord's words of reproach did not contain
the feelings of an angered man but a mystery of compassion... And now,
see!, suddenly those waters began to gain strength, to take on color, to
shed a good odor, to acquire taste and, at the same time, to completely
change their nature. And this transformation of water into another
substance testified to the presence of the Creator, for no one apart from
the one who created water out of nothing could have transformed it into
something else.
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
Week of prayer for Christian unity
St. Sebastian, Martyr (c. 257-c. 288)
Commentary of the day
Saint Maximus of Turin : The new wine of true joy
Reading
Jn 2:1-11.
There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.
When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."
(And) Jesus said to her, "Woman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come."
His mother said to the servers, "Do whatever he tells you."
Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings, each holding twenty to thirty gallons.
Jesus told them, "Fill the jars with water." So they filled them to the brim.
Then he told them, "Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter." So they took it.
And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it came from (although the servers who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom
and said to him, "Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now."
Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs in Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him.
Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB
Commentary of the day
Saint Maximus of Turin (?-c.420), Bishop
Sermon 23 ; PL 57, 274
The new wine of true joy
It is written that our Lord went to the wedding feast to which he had been
invited. So the Son of God went to that wedding feast to sanctify by his
presence the marriage he had already instituted. He went to a wedding of
the old law to choose a bride for himself among the pagans, who would
remain for ever a virgin. He, who was not born of human wedlock, went to
the wedding. He went there, not to participate in a joyful feast, but to
make himself known by means of a truly wonderful miracle. He went there,
not to drink wine but to give it. For as soon as the guests lacked wine
blessed Mary said to him: “They have no wine”. Jesus, seemingly annoyed,
answered her: “Woman, what do you want of me?”... By responding that: “My
hour has not yet come” he was surely announcing the glorious hour of his
Passion, or else the wine shed for the salvation and life of all. Mary
asked for a temporal favor whereas Christ was preparing an eternal
joy.However, our good Lord did not hold back from granting small things
while awaiting the coming of the great. Blessed Mary, because she was truly
the mother of the Lord, saw in her mind what was about to take place and
knew beforehand the Lord's intention. That is why she carefully warned the
servants in these words: “Do whatever he tells you”. His holy mother most
certainly knew that her son and Lord's words of reproach did not contain
the feelings of an angered man but a mystery of compassion... And now,
see!, suddenly those waters began to gain strength, to take on color, to
shed a good odor, to acquire taste and, at the same time, to completely
change their nature. And this transformation of water into another
substance testified to the presence of the Creator, for no one apart from
the one who created water out of nothing could have transformed it into
something else.
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