{"id":949,"date":"2011-06-13T23:55:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T05:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/?p=949"},"modified":"2013-11-04T16:32:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T22:32:12","slug":"when-the-water-turned-to-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/catholic\/when-the-water-turned-to-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Water Turned to Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jesus<\/a>John 2:1-11<\/span> When did it happen; at what point did the water turn to wine? There are no active words from Jesus calling the water wine. The waiters followed his instructions, filling the jars to the brim. They would have seen, and smelled the effervescence of wine had the change taken place immediately. Jesus then says \u201cdraw some out and take it to the headwaiter.\u201d Some what; some water or some wine? I imagine it was still water and that the waiters were demonstrating faith taking a sample of it to the headwaiter. The actual instant of the miracle seems to be elusive. In the institution of the Eucharist, Jesus\u2019 words are direct, \u201cthis is my body,\u201d and again, \u201cthis is my blood.\u201d Yet the change is not visible in the Eucharist; Christ\u2019s Body and Blood are present under the appearances of bread and wine. But here at the miracle at the Cana wedding, Jesus is indirect, and the change in substance is visible. If Christ can bring about a visible change of substance without a direct command, as in the miracle of turning water into wine, how much more could He bring about the invisible change of substance when His words are direct, as in the Institution of the Eucharist? The disciples, indeed even priests today, are like the waiters following Jesus\u2019 instructions as the Holy Spirit changes the substance of bread and wine to the Body and Blood of Christ. For the waiters to trust the instructions from Jesus, it took faith: for us to trust the teaching of the Church, it takes faith.<\/p>\n

<\/div><\/div>John 2:1-11<\/span>
View in: NAB<\/a> Vulg<\/a> Greek<\/a><\/span><\/div>
1<\/span>And the third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee: and the mother of Jesus was there.<\/div>
2<\/span>And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage.<\/div>
3<\/span>And the wine failing, the mother of Jesus saith to him: They have no wine.<\/div>
4<\/span>And Jesus saith to her: Woman, what is that to me and to thee? my hour is not yet come.<\/div>
5<\/span>His mother saith to the waiters: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye.<\/div>
6<\/span>Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three measures apiece.<\/div>
7<\/span>Jesus saith to them: Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.<\/div>
8<\/span>And Jesus saith to them: Draw out now, and carry to the chief steward of the feast. And they carried it.<\/div>
9<\/span>And when the chief steward had tasted the water made wine, and knew not whence it was, but the waiters knew who had drawn the water; the chief steward calleth the bridegroom,<\/div>
10<\/span>And saith to him: Every man at first setteth forth good wine, and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse. But thou hast kept the good wine until now.<\/div>
11<\/span>This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee; and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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John 2:1-11 When did it happen; at what point did the water turn to wine? There are no active words from Jesus calling the water wine. The waiters followed his instructions, filling the jars to the brim. They would have seen, and smelled the effervescence of wine had the change taken place immediately. Jesus then … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic","category-meditations","category-mysteries-of-the-holy-rosary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}