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Some of you may remember me. I was a regular here in the fall of '05 and early last year and have just recently started spending time at CAF again. Those who do remember me might remember seeing (and helping along, thank you) my return to the Church. I just wanted to share some thoughts that struck me today as I was contemplating St. John’s account of the wedding feast at Cana and the reflection I saw in my return to Christ’s Church.
I did debate whether to post this here or in Sacred Scritpure, but I think it is more relevant to the Spirituality section.
I have stopped searching for spiritual fulfillment through inauthentic means – drugs, occultism, Mormonism, Wicca, Heathenry, Eastern spiritualities (I don’t mean the Orthodox churches), etc. I will not find it there. Even though the wine transformed through the power of Christ was the best wine at the wedding in Cana, yet it was also served last. Only when the guests had exhausted the regular wine was Christ’s wine available.
My journey has been like that of those wedding guests. I was born into a Catholic family and raised in the Church, present at the wedding feast. Christ has been there all along, waiting patiently for me to drink my fill of the regular wine made by men from things of the world. Now that I have been through those, he is still there, at His mother’s request offering the wine that He has transformed. Though I have drunk other wines in my spiritual quest and have indeed been intoxicated by them, their effects are feeble next to the true wine of Christ. It is only in Christ that the true wine may be found, and only in His Church that His wine is made fully available to me.
The Blessed Virgin is there now, speaking to her Son, telling Him that there is no more wine in my life and I am now ready to receive that which He has transformed. With her urging to “do whatever He tells me,” Mary leads me to life in Him. At her intercession, Christ makes available to me the true wine, His blood, poured out for all, which happily includes me.
Now with the chief steward, I too can declare to the Bridegroom, “You have saved the best for last!”
I did debate whether to post this here or in Sacred Scritpure, but I think it is more relevant to the Spirituality section.
I have stopped searching for spiritual fulfillment through inauthentic means – drugs, occultism, Mormonism, Wicca, Heathenry, Eastern spiritualities (I don’t mean the Orthodox churches), etc. I will not find it there. Even though the wine transformed through the power of Christ was the best wine at the wedding in Cana, yet it was also served last. Only when the guests had exhausted the regular wine was Christ’s wine available.
My journey has been like that of those wedding guests. I was born into a Catholic family and raised in the Church, present at the wedding feast. Christ has been there all along, waiting patiently for me to drink my fill of the regular wine made by men from things of the world. Now that I have been through those, he is still there, at His mother’s request offering the wine that He has transformed. Though I have drunk other wines in my spiritual quest and have indeed been intoxicated by them, their effects are feeble next to the true wine of Christ. It is only in Christ that the true wine may be found, and only in His Church that His wine is made fully available to me.
The Blessed Virgin is there now, speaking to her Son, telling Him that there is no more wine in my life and I am now ready to receive that which He has transformed. With her urging to “do whatever He tells me,” Mary leads me to life in Him. At her intercession, Christ makes available to me the true wine, His blood, poured out for all, which happily includes me.
Now with the chief steward, I too can declare to the Bridegroom, “You have saved the best for last!”
