“Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs at Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him.” John 2:11
We just concluded the beautiful season of Christmas and now continue the liturgical year with ordinary time. Yet today’s Gospel, brings back a term that we used a lot through the Christmas season, “glory.” Jesus has just performed his first miracle, and so, he’s revealed his “glory” – what he’s been sent to do – manifesting it in a recognizable manner. It’s a “glory” that we as his baptized disciples not only share but are invited to participate in. In this way, we not only experience and recognize tangible signs of God’s actions within us and around us, but we also get to perform them when we, for example, connect with a stranger, when we bring the light of wonder to a child’s eyes through an act of love, or when our care for each other replaces poverty with abundance – like Jesus did today by not only making more wine for the wedding, but making the “very best.” May our relationship with Christ help us to not only manifest his “glory” in the world but make us grow closer to him in faith.
Fr Robert