By the time of the Wedding Feast at Cana, Mary fully understands her son’s role. Mary’s remarkable life includes a visit from an angel, her son’s miraculous birth, supporting him during his public ministry, accompanying him at his agonizing death, and rejoicing with him at his Resurrection.
Throughout, Mary is not afraid to ask questions, as she does in Nazareth with the Angel Gabriel; or give voice to her worries, as she does in Capernaum with Jesus; or tell people what needs to be done at Cana to the stewards: Do whatever he tells you.
Conceived without sin, Mary is nonetheless like us in so many ways, most especially as a person who shows us what it means to accompany Jesus along the way, with deep faith and trust.
Facebook, November 22, 2019
Image source: Wilhelm Borremans, The Miracle at Cana, detail & complete painting (1717), ceiling fresco, Church of Santa Maria dell’Amiraglio, Sicily, https://www.christianiconography.info/cana.html
or https://www.christianiconography.info/sicily/canaMartorana.html
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