The Holy Week Retreat - The Wedding Feast at Cana - Station 9

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Transcript

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The ninth station of the Eucharist, the wedding feast of Cana. O sacramus holy, O sacrama divine, all praise and all thanksgiving be every moment thine. In the second chapter of St. John's Gospel, Jesus is at a wedding. His mom is there, his disciples are there, and there's a bride and groom who are about to be embarrassed as they run out of wine. Mary, in her motherly love, with her compassionate heart, recognizes this and tells her son, Jesus says, My hour has not yet come. And yet his mother is insistent, but also knows that it is the time. So she says to the servants that are present there, do whatever he tells you, initiating and bringing forth the first miracle, where Jesus turns water into wine. It's pretty interesting. This reveals to everyone that Jesus has tremendous power. He can change substances. Now we know that Jesus is one with the Father, that Jesus is the second person of the Most Holy Trinity, in total union with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. The three of them are one. And thus, what the Creator did, what the Father did to create the whole world, Jesus was in union with the Father that whole time and with the Holy Spirit. And thus, if God can create the whole world out of nothing, clearly God can change water into wine. And this sign at a wedding feast makes volumes. Why did Jesus' first miracle take place at a wedding feast? Ultimately because Christ is a groom. He is a divine groom who came to marry his bride, the church. We'll read later in Ephesians chapter 5 how Christ is the groom who espouses his church, is willing to die for her, willing to lay down his life for her, to protect her, to defend her, to uplift her, to serve her. And thus, this image of a wedding where Christ is the groom who's going to lay down his life and the sacrifice on Calvary, who's going to pour out his blood. So, yes, Jesus changes water into wine. You know, earlier in the stations, we heard about in that fourth station of the Eucharist about the Exodus. And what was the first miracle that Moses worked in the Exodus? He turned water into blood. Changing substances, apparently, something that we hear a lot about in Scripture. Moses turned water into blood, Jesus changes water into wine. And thus at every single mass, through the power of the Holy Spirit, the priest has the ability to bring about the miracle of transubstantiation. As wine becomes Jesus' blood. Moses changed substance, Jesus changes substances, and at every single Mass, that miracle continues to happen. Because those words of Jesus, this is my body, this is the chalice of my blood. Those are words of truth spoken in the power of the Holy Spirit, fulfilling the ordinances, the commands of the Lord, do this in memory of me. Change happens. It's easier for God to change water into wine and wine into his blood and bread into his body than it is for him to change our hearts. Bread and wine don't have free will. And yet we do. We do and our children do and our grandchildren do and our godchildren do. And change can be hard. And yet God desires change. He desires us to change. And deep in every single one of our hearts, we want to change. There's parts of us that we know don't work. There's habits, there's dispositions, there's ways that we live that aren't working. So I ask of you today to just reflect upon that. What is it in my life that needs to change? What am I doing today that I don't want to do tomorrow? What did I do last week that I don't want to do this week? And realize that you can change, that God can change you, that you don't have to remain the same. That there is hope and life and joy and peace that's made ready for you. And we can receive that. So yes, at a wedding feast, God turned water into wine. And at every mass, he turns wine into his blood. Let's also pray for the grace that we ourselves will be changed. Changed into the saints of his kingdom. To live here on earth and one day in heaven with him forever. Amen.