2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) - John 2: 1-11

Daily Gospel Exegesis

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🗓️ 18 January 2025

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John 2: 1-11 - 'My hour has not come yet; do whatever he tells you.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 2618 (in 'The Prayer of the Virgin Mary') - The Gospel reveals to us how Mary prays and intercedes in faith. At Cana, The mother of Jesus asks her son for the needs of a wedding feast; this is the sign of another feast - that of the wedding of the Lamb where he gives his body and blood at the request of the Church, his Bride (abbreviated).

- 1613 (in 'Marriage in the Lord') - On the threshold of his public life Jesus performs his first sign - at his mother's request - during a wedding feast. The Church attaches great importance to Jesus' presence at the wedding at Cana. She sees in it the confirmation of the goodness of marriage and the proclamation that thenceforth marriage will be an efficacious sign of Christ's presence.

- 495 (in 'Mary's Divine Motherhood') - Called in the Gospels "the mother of Jesus", Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before the birth of her son, as "the mother of my Lord". In fact, the One whom she conceived as man by the Holy Spirit, who truly became her Son according to the flesh, was none other than the Father's eternal Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity. Hence the Church confesses that Mary is truly "Mother of God" (Theotokos).

- 1335 (in 'The Signs of Bread and Wine') - The miracles of the multiplication of the loaves, when the Lord says the blessing, breaks and distributes the loaves through his disciples to feed the multitude, prefigure the superabundance of this unique bread of his Eucharist. The sign of water turned into wine at Cana already announces the Hour of Jesus' glorification. It makes manifest the fulfillment of the wedding feast in the Father's kingdom, where the faithful will drink the new wine that has become the Blood of Christ.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the Daily Gospel Exegesis podcast.
0:16.6	So as always, we want to do a take a look at the gospel reading from today's Mass.
0:21.6	We really want to get at the literal sense of the text.
0:24.3	What was the original author trying to get at when they used certain words?
0:29.2	So today we're looking at quite a beloved text.
0:31.6	So it's John chapter 2 verses 1 to 11, which is the wedding at Cana.
0:37.1	Now, it's actually only read once every three years.
0:40.2	So it's read today on the second Sunday in ordinary time, only in year C. So as popular as this
0:47.2	reading is, it's actually not read all that often in the liturgical cycle. So let's have a look at the
0:53.0	text, John chapter 2 verses 1 to 11.
0:57.0	There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee.
0:59.0	The mother of Jesus was there and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited.
1:06.0	When they ran out of wine, since the wine provided for the wedding was all finished, the mother of Jesus
1:12.1	said to him, they have no wine. Jesus said, woman, why turn to me? My hour has not come yet.
1:22.8	His mother said to the servants, do whatever he tells you.
1:33.8	There were six stone water jars standing there, meant for the ablutions that are customary among the Jews.
1:36.7	Each could hold 20 or 30 gallons.
1:43.1	Jesus said to the servants, fill the jars with water, and they filled them to the brim.
1:48.0	Draw some out now, he told them, and take it to the steward. They did this.
1:50.0	The steward tasted the water and it had turned into wine.
1:55.0	Having no idea where it came from, only the servants who had drawn the water knew,
2:00.0	the steward called the bridegroom
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