II Sunday after Epiphany, 17/1/1621. [Jn. 2/1-11: ]
This is the first sign that the Saviour gave to manifest His glory. Indeed, while the Incarnation is the greatest of all miracles, the miracle of miracles, it remained invisible, secret, and unknown. And so, it did not serve as sign to manifest the glory of God as did the miracle performed at the Wedding feast of Cana. [104] Other miracles clustered around the Incarnation: [Mt. 2/1-2: the star which led the Magi from the East]. However, these were not wrought by Jesus, but by the Father and the Spirit.
The first miracle was wrought by changing water into wine, just as the last was wrought by Jesus in His mortal sojourn was the changing of wine into His Blood in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist.
When God created Adam, the first sign of that creation was changing mud into a human body. When Jesus re-created, the first sign was the transformation of one substance into another, the changing of water into wine.
In the creation of man, God changed earth into human flesh – after saying let us make man to our image and likeness. In the re-creation, Our Lord begins by transforming water into wine, giving this sign to reveal His glory.
He chose to begin the Gospel by the first sign of the changing of water into wine. He chose to end His ministry of preaching by changing wine into Blood. He performed the first miracle at a banquet; and the last, the Eucharist, at another banquet. He changed water into wine at the wedding feast of Cana, and at the Last Supper, which was at the wedding feast of this Sacred Spouse, He transformed bread into His Flesh and wine into His Blood; with this transubstantiation He began to solemnize those nuptials which He consummated on the tree of the Cross. For the day of the Saviour’s death was the day of His marriage. [Cant. 3/11]
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