Scripture Reflections for the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Year C, Lectionary 66
God seeks to join us to God, a marital union between divinity and humanity. Jesus initiates this unity in his person as both human and God through the incarnation. We are invited to enter into communion with God but first we must 'do whatever Christ tells us.'
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“Not all the charisms are miraculous and as extraordinary and visible, in that sense, as tongues or miracles...They're not for show, they're not for display, right, they're not for people to kind of demonstrate their own personal holiness.”
“So by Mary encouraging Jesus to perform this miracle at the Wedding Feast at Cana, she was letting go of that exclusive relationship she had with Jesus and she was...taking up the responsibility of becoming the new Eve”
“Will we draw anybody to the source?”
“it reveals to us that Jesus...is first and foremost the bridegroom...who provides the miraculous feast, who brings in the age of salvation is God himself, prophets described God himself as the divine bridegroom”
“Perhaps in our own prayer life we are called to present the problem to Christ and even if Christ is delayed we await Christ's instructions”
“the coming of Jesus was to bring about the reconciliation between the groom and bride, that the broken home, the broken relationship, may be mended and that the eternal marriage may begin”
“Jesus is at work within congregations big and small. Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and so many more who keep the hope of resurrection alive, who time and again answer Christ's call to be vessels of hope in a world in need of some miracles.”
“When Jesus comes to us, humanity is being married to divinity and divinity is married to humanity all in the person of Jesus”
“No matter what you may be dealing with, be it good or bad, Jesus wants to walk with us”
“Many times the Lord has given grace to the world and the world doesn't receive it because the servants who have the grace in their hands say 'no'”
“The Lord who once communicated the divine presence in such a remote and terrifying form on Mt. Sinai now reveals it in an event as human as a village wedding”
“There is no transformation if we don't participate”
“when they came together, children, when they worked together, children, then the party was on because they all did their part, they listened to what Jesus had to say”
“A miracle points to one person: Jesus Christ. It's done so that we can look at this, at the one who performs the miracle, that is Jesus, and that we might be transformed and united with Jesus in a special way because of the miracle.”
“So how do we make real change today? We do it in community. We listen to our elders, the Marys in our lives who remind us of the gifts we have been bestowed by the Spirit.”
“in that very beautiful well-known text about the wedding feast of Cana used so many times when couples get married reminding them: did you invite Jesus to your wedding?”
“Like the overflowing abundance of wine at Cana, there is an abundance of gifts and voices and vocations. The poverty we live with is not necessary and I dare say is not from God.”
“may we be those who intentionally reflect God's glory through a sense of gratitude, through actions of kindness and by nurturing within one another the voices that preach the Gospel in word and action”
