Hello, welcome to Form Now. My name is Ben Acres, and joining me today is John Seahorn,

a professor at the Augustine Institute Graduate School of Theology. Thanks for joining me, John.

And today we're going to be talking about the luminous mystery known as the Wedding of Cana.

The luminous mysteries is a series we're doing. We're doing a Bible study on these five luminous mysteries,

these mysteries of light that were given to the church by Pope St. John Paul II. In 2002, he wrote

an apostolic letter where he talked about, where he named Rosarium Virginus Maria, the Rosary

of the Blessed Virgin Mary. And in that letter, he encouraged the church to focus on mysteries

of Christ's public ministry.

In the joyful mysteries, we focus on Jesus' infancy and his early hidden life in Nazareth.

And then in the sorrowful mysteries, we jump to the mysteries related to Christ's passion and death.

And in the glorious mysteries, we meditate on the glorious mysteries of Christ's

resurrection and the crowning of his mother after an assumption into heaven. And there was a,

seemed to be a whole, according to St. John Paul II, of the public ministry of Christ. And

he proposed five mysteries. In the last study, we talked about the first mystery of light, which is the baptism.

And the second mystery of light is known as the Wedding of Cana.

And that's found in John, chapter 2, verses 1 to 12.

So if you like to get your Bible and follow along, we're going to be talking about the wedding of Cana.

John, the first question I have for you is, why do you think this,

out of all the things that Jesus does in his public ministry, why does John Paul II pick this one,

the wedding of Cana? Yeah, that's a great question, Ben. Maybe I should take your advice and

open to, I did bring my Bible. It's John chapter two, if you're looking for it. Yeah.

Versus one to 12. John chapter two versus 1 to 12. And, you know, if you look at kind of the chronology of

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