To Read Click John 2:1-11
- This reading is in commemoration of the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, which we celebrate today.
- The reading proper for the day is the awesome and inspiring faith of the Syrophoenician Woman.
- Even Mary’s faith is exemplary
- It is she who helps Jesus understand that moment when he should start his ministry
- At the occasion is apt
- Because the wedding setting is what God has planned to rescue humanity.
- Marriage is highly emphasised by placing it in the Creation Narrative.
- And there is new creation happening in this section of John’s Gospel
- This marriage is set in the framework of Seven Days
- And the Marriage is on the seventh day
- There is the Second Adam – Jesus
- And the Second Eve – Mary
- The First Eve lead The First Adam to the Apple
- The Second Eve helps the Second Adam to understand Now of his Calling
- And she will support Him right to the Cross.
- Indeed Mary is a person of great faith
- I myself have encountered her in my life
- And she lead me to discovering her Son.
- That is Mary for you
- The path and sign she is
- To guide one and all
- To an encounter with Jesus.
