By Deacon Steven D. Greydanus | This morning, for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, our family streamed Bishop Barron’s Mass. I’m a longtime vocal admirer of Bishop Barron, and I always appreciate his thoughtful expositions on the…
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By Michael O’Neill | Classes and sports were done, the students had gone home, and the hot Ugandan day was cooling off.
Brother Geoffrey and Brother Norbert left the secondary school for the convent. Brother Geoffrey always…
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By Jim Schroeder | On Ash Wednesday, March 6, 2019, I began a fasting process in which once a week, I would fast from all but water from one meal on a particular day to the same the meal the next day. This culminated with a…
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The invitation arrived in early 2018, and I could not have been more grateful. Father James Lloyd, the world’s oldest living Paulist priest, was writing to announce a special event, to be held “in the […]
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NAIROBI, Kenya (CWR) – Scenes like those in the book of Exodus are unfolding in Eastern Africa, as millions of desert locusts swarm the region, in the worst infestation in 70 years. The calamity is […]
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Homily The Holy Spirit actualizes the love of God.
“And when the wine was failing, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ And Jesus said to her: ‘Woman, what is that to me and to you? My hour has not yet come.’ His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you’” (Jn 2:3-5).
At the wedding feast in Cana, there is a need, and Our Blessed Mother presents that need to Jesus. Our Lord gives a wild answer, and in this moment, the commencement of His public ministry, Jesus is already looking ahead to His crucifixion. He knows full well where this path will lead Him, and yet He steps courageously into the space that His Blessed Mother has just opened for Him.
Did Jesus need this prompting from His Blessed Mother in order to begin His public ministry and the path to the cross? No, there was no absolute necessity for God to redeem man in the manner that He did; however, He did choose to redeem as has been revealed, because He desired not simply to redeem us, but also to reveal Himself to us. Mary presents a problem to Her Son; She opens the door for Him to manifest Himself in the world. God can act without our cooperation, but He desires to enter into spaces that have been prepared for Him.