“Everyone is interested in marriage. If the human heart does not have enough love in its heart, it seeks out those who are in love. The most famous marriage in history was at Cana, because Our Blessed Lord was present there.” — Servant of God Fulton J. Sheen
The wedding at Cana symbolizes the covenant love of Christ the bridegroom and the Church, his beloved bride. This union of Christ and the Church develops the marriage symbolism of the Old Testament that God is bound by a covenant to his chosen people. But for Christians, the miracle Jesus performs at Cana also has a deep Eucharistic meaning. This miracle, which took place near the celebration of the Jewish feast of Passover, foreshadows Jesus’ own Paschal Mystery, when Christ the true lamb offers himself for our sins. The new wine at the wedding at Cana, like the multiplication of loves, is a prefiguration of the New Covenant, in which Christ gives us his flesh and his blood for our food and drink.
LET US PRAY
Lord Jesus, transform the mere water of our lives into rich, choice wine. May we rejoice in your faithfulness, confident that in moments of true need you always provide with abundance. Amen.
PRAYER TO THE EUCHARIST
O God, who in this wonderful Sacrament have left us a memorial of your Passion, grant us, we pray, so to revere the sacred mysteries of your Body and Blood that we may always experience in ourselves the fruits of your redemption. Who live and reign with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.
-Collect for the Feast of Corpus Christi, composed by St. Thomas Aquinas