"They Have No Wine"
Tomorrow, we celebrate the first miracle of Jesus at the Wedding Feast of Cana.
Remember that Jesus was fully human—he ate, he slept, he wept, he laughed, and he went to weddings. When the bride and the groom run out of wine at Cana, Mary prompts Jesus to act: "They have no wine."
But Jesus knows that with this first miracle his public ministry begins, a ministry that will ultimately lead to the Cross. Mary, aware of her son's mission at hand, detaches herself and says to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."
The symbolic nature of the water to wine foreshadows both the blood that Christ will pour out for us from the Cross and the "new wine" of the Eucharist that will nourish his Church and never run dry!