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In the name of Jesus.

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Amen.

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Dear brothers and sisters of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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A bath becomes a beverage.

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On a third day, writes the Apostle, his gospel begins with such a

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day?

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His Gospel, of course, ends with such a day.

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And it all happened at the end of a six-day

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long week of days, adds the apostle.

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Okay, you're going to have to take my word for that one.

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But check later and see his gospel begins also

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with a week of days.

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As does the primordial narrative. As does

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Genesis 1 and 2. His Gospel begins in this way,

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his gospel and ends in this way with such days.

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John's gospel begins and ends

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so the days might signal the coming of the greatest of days.

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The day of the Lord.

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And so,

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on just such a day

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at a nuptial

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at a wedding feast, a bath becomes a beverage.

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The stuff of the feast.

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Water

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that was there that day

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for the sake of the ritual, purification of the Jews becomes wine. With

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the water comes then

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this festival beverage, the stuff of the feast. Have you noticed

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that a feast without wine is a sad excuse for a feast.

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A bath becomes a much-needed beverage.

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Water becomes wine.

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Now, ask the good question.

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Ask the catechetical question.

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What does this mean?

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When the last of the Apostles went John with the last of his days, in

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the last days of the first century left behind the last of the

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gospels, and then he died,

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the Apostle. And then those that he left behind were on their own or so

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it seemed.

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Those were dark days.

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Famine, pestilence, pandemic

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after pandemic, natural, disasters, of every kind tragedies of

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every sort.

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Disparity,

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poverty, injustice, violence, bloodshed, travesties, devastations of

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every sort.

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These were the things of that day.

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Those were dark days.

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How long O Lord became the plaintive cry of the faithful?

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Have you two been asking the question?

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You know, that you have.

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How long when will the tribulation

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end?

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In just such a time.

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In that time that has become our time to just such a people.

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The last of the Apostles writes.

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And he tells us of the day that Jesus and his mother, and his

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disciples, and even his own brothers, if we're leading reading on into

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verse 12, that is not a sign for today.

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But also worthy of some attention, even Jesus own flesh, and blood

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brothers, the rest of the sons of Mary and Joseph were also there,

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they all attend a wedding feast in Cana,

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Galilee.

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But the feast that day lacks, what a feast requires.

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The feast that day lacks this festival beverage.

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A feast without wine, isn't just a sad, excuse for a feast. A feast

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without wine is no feast at all.

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So, Jesus hopeful mother

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instructs

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the servants of that feast.

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To wait on the word of the word made flesh.

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Do whatever he says,

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says his mother.

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What do you think?

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Do you think she knew

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what he would do?

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Six waterpots of stone are present so that at the feast everyone and

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everything might be made clean in keeping with the law of Moses.

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Ritual cleansing a

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first grace.

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Anticipates, a greater cleansing of final Grace

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that will come with age, that is to come.

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So, here Jesus comes.

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So, the word made flesh does what the word made flesh does.

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He speaks

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and the pots are filled to the top with water.

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He whose words summoned into existence, the entirety of the creation

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speaks again and water

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becomes wine.

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With the water comes the wine.

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For the fateful day is coming, when such things will both flow from

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his riven side.

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A bath becomes a beverage.

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For a final bath and a final beverage, a baptismal flood of the Spirit

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and a Paschal feast of victory will both come.

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When the bridegroom sheds, his blood. When the bridegroom

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becomes

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a bridegroom of blood.

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As his only right the best saved for last will

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finally come.

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It will cleanse.

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It will also slake.

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Those who thirst will thirst no more

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when the bridegroom says I thirst.

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So, it is at Cana that the beginning of his signs, like each and every

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one of the rest of his signs anticipates

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the end that will come with the age, that is to come.

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At Cana

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she who is his bride sees and believes.

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And with him, she remains.

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With him, therefore we remain.

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For with him comes the only answers the that are the only answers that

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matter to the questions.

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But we continue to ask.

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With him comes not an identity, and a feast that will be.

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With him comes an identity, and a feast that is.

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And so, she sings the bride.

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And so we too sing.

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With the Angels and Archangels with these who are the company of

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Heaven.

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We sing

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not that this will be a feast

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of victory for our God, but that this is a feast.

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You hold the feast.

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We celebrate not who we will be

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but who even now we are.

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For what

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we will be, that is who we are.

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What we are that is who we will be.

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Worthy is Christ, the lamb who was slain, whose blood set us free to

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be people of God. For the lamb who was slain has begun his reign.

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And his is a reign

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that knows no end.

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So, it is that in spite of what troubles we live on, in hope.

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Knowing who we are even now and where it is that our God is taking us

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so that where he is we to may be.

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I will not leave you as orphans declares

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Jesus. Never will

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I leave

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you. Never will I forsake

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you.

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No one,

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nothing will snatch you out of my hand.

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All grieving shall be turned to joy.

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A joy, that knows no end.

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Surely

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I am coming soon to declares Jesus.

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And so we all await an end when all the world will see, all

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sightlessness will see its end when then the sightless see.

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Just who we are, then we'll see

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just as is he, we then will be

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with him, we finally see.

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And so we all will see the end.

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And so, we'll all be at an end.

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When him, we finally see.

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Blessed Lord dearest friend come quickly.

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The grace of the Lord

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Jesus be with us all.

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In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.