Reflection for the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C, 2025

Reflection for the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C, 2025

Jan 22, 2025 | Reflections

Last Sunday’s Gospel relates the first public miracle of Jesus, at the Wedding Feast of Cana in Galilee. It was only a short distance from Nazareth where Our Lady lived. Mary had been invited, together with Jesus and His first disciples. It may have been the wedding of a relative or family friend. 

Jesus allowed Himself to be invited because He wanted to raise marriage to the dignity of a Sacrament. Through the grace of the sacrament, a man and woman’s love for each other within marriage is perfected. Good families who welcome and cherish new life are the bedrock of society. It is from good families that vocations to the Priesthood and Religious life arise. The supreme gift of marriage is children. At the wedding feast Jesus also wanted to show is divinity and Messiahship.

It was customary for the women who knew the family to help in the preparations of all that was needed. Our Lady who was helping, realized that the wine was running out. It that part of the world wine was part of the main meal, and it would have been a huge embarrassment for the young couple and their families if the wine ran out. This was especially the case also because marriage celebrations in those days went for one week. The reason for the week-long celebration was to enable those who had to travel by road from further away to reach the wedding celebration. There were no trains, planes or motor vehicles of course in those times.

Our Lady said to Jesus: 

They have no wine. 

So, without asking for anything Mary simply points out the need. Our Heavenly Mother knows that Jesus won’t refuse her anything. Our Lady only ever did the Divine Will is thus, was completely united to the Lord. With great confidence, She, simply said to the waiters: 

Do whatever He tells you. 

Mary is also attentive to our needs, especially when we are devoted to Her through reciting the Holy Rosary, which is a great sign of predestination. She is called: Virgin most powerful. The Church has also called her Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of all grace.

There were six large stone water jars nearby, each holding twenty or thirty gallons, and Jesus said to the servants: 

Fill the jars with water. 

They filled the jars to the brim. Jesus then told them: 

Draw some out now …..and take it to the steward.  

When the steward tasted the water, it had turned into wine. Having no idea where it came from, for only the servants knew, the steward called the bridegroom and said:

People generally serve the best wine first, and keep the cheaper sort till the guests have had plenty to drink, but you have kept the best wine till now.  

Jesus had miraculously provided more than five hundred litres of top-quality wine.  All, including the first disciples, one of which we believe to be St John, were amazed at this miracle and it helped them to take a step forward in their newly found Faith.

Pope St John Paul II included this event in the Luminous Mysteries of the Holy Rosary. The miracle is also the fulfilment of the prophecies of Joel, Isaiah and Amos about the coming of the Messiah:

..In that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine..

Jesus is the Bridegroom of the Church who is mystically wedded to us, the members. Through the Eucharist He is present to us, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, so in the greatest degree, until the end of time.

In Old Testament times, Kings had several wives. Rather than choosing one of their wives as Queen, the King (e.g. King Solomon) would choose their mother to be Queen. Bathsheeba, the mother of Solomon, sat as Queen at his right hand. King Solomon would refuse his mother nothing.

Mary is now Queen at the right hand of Jesus in Heaven. She is completely divinized by divine grace and is the greatest of all creatures. Mary is also all merciful and is our advocate before Christ the King. The fifth of the fifteen Promises of the Holy Rosary says: 

The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not perish. 

So those who faithfully pray the daily Rosary will not go to hell.

Throughout 2025 let’s be devoted always to Our Lady and aim to be like Her in only at every moment being in God’s Will. In this way, God will bless everything we do. Praise be Jesus Christ, now and forever!

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