Wedding at Cana

"So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.” The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!” Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son lives!” Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household. This again is the second sign Jesus did when He had come out of Judea into Galilee."

"Più pensava Maria onde | fosser le nozze orrevoli e intere, | ch'a la sua bocca, ch'or per voi risponde."

"Non c'è festa senza vino, immaginatevi di finire le nozze di Cana bevendo tè."

""My mother and my brethren are they who hear the word of God and keep it" (see Lk. 11:27-28). The Teacher of morals, who sets Himself up as an example to others, and is in fact the preceptor, actually carries out His own precepets. Before enjoining on others that he who leaves not his father and mother is not worthy of the Son of God, He first in His own person subject Himself to this sentence. Not that He should thereby renounce the duty of filial piety toward His Mother-after all, it is His command: "He who honoreth not his father and mother shall he die the death" (Exod. 20:12; 21:15); rather is it because He realizes that He is bound more to the mysteries of His Father than to affection toward His Mother. But here there is no wrongful forsaking of parents. To the contrary, spiritual ties are taught to be more religious than such as are corporal...And let no suppose that there is here any offense against the filial piety that the Law prescribes. For if a man is to leave father and mother and "to cleave his wife, and they are to be two in one flesh," than surely this mystery is justly realized in Christ and the Church (see Eph. 5:31). He could not therefore prefer parents to His own [Mystical] Body. Here, then, the Mother is not denied-as certain heretics would artfully make out-for she is acknowledged even from the Cross. Rather, preference over ties of flesh is given to a type of relationship which is prescribed from above. Again, there is nothing repugnant in this interpretation. For He is showing under the figure of His relations that the Church which believes is preferred to the Jews, of whom is Christ according to the flesh."

"The Lord was engaged in the ministry of the word, in teaching the people, and in the office of preaching; His mother and brethren come and stand outside and ask to speak Him (see Mt. 12:46-50). At this point somone tells our Savior that they were outside and asking for Him. Now, to my mind, the one who brought the message did not do so casually and with sincerity; rather he was setting a trap for the Savior, to see whether He would prefer flesh and bllod to His spiritual ministry. For this reason the Lord refuses to go out-not meaning to disown His Mother. But to answer the plotter. He stretches forth His hand towards His disciples, and says: "Behold my mother..." These are My Mother, who give birth to Me daily in the hearts of believers. These are My brethren, who do the works of My Father. By this, however, He did not-as Marcion and Manichaeus assert-disown His Mother, so as to lend credence to the idea that He was born of a phantom; rather, He preferred His Apostles to His kindred that we too might prefer, where there is question of rival love, the spirit to the flesh."

"Unquestionably there is a mystery here and because of this, He appears not to acknowledge His Mother, from whom as the Bridgerrom He came forth, when He says to her, "Woman, what is to me and to thee? My hour is not yet come" (Jn. 2:4). What is the meaning of this? Did He come to the marriage in order to teach men to threat their mothers with contempt? Why, the man to whose marriage He had come was taking a wife with a view to having children. And surely he wished to be honored by the children that he would beget! Are we then to suppose that Jesus had come to the marriage in order to dishonor His Mother, when marriages are celebrated and wives are married with a view to having children, whom God commands to honor their parents? Unquestionably, brethren, there is some mystery here. And it is a matter of such importance that some have actually fallen into the error against which the Apostle has forewarned us to be on our guard. "I fear,", he said, "lest as the serpent] seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ" (2 Cor. 11:3). These men set the gospel at naught and assert that Jesus was not born of the Virgin Mary. And to bolster their error, they would try to use this passage by way of support for their statement. "How could she be His Mother, to whom He said, 'Woman, what is to me and to thee?'""