January 7 - before Epiphany

The BreadCast · Jan 6, 2023 · 4m

(1Jn.5:14-21; Ps.149:1-6,9; Jn.2:1-12) “He hears us whenever we ask for anything according to His will.” In our gospel, the waiters come to Mary; their misfortune is witnessed by her compassionate heart: “They have no more wine,” she tells her Son. She knows what she is saying, she knows what she is asking… and Jesus knows, too. And though He seems not prepared to answer her concern (you see, our concern is her concern, and she makes it His), yet she says to the servants standing by the words which perhaps best exemplify the Mother’s relationship to the Son – “Do whatever He tells you.” Has…