"THE NEW WINE THAT RESTORES JOY"

 16th January 2022

SUNDAY, SECOND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME

(Is 62:1-5); (1 Cor 12:4-11); (Jn 2:1-11)

"THE NEW WINE THAT RESTORES JOY"

My beloved brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, this Sunday as we have heard the Word of God from the Scriptures, we are called to recollect the most magnificent and generous gifts from God to us. God has given us His benevolence gift and it is depends upon us to cherish our lives. He has uncovered Himself to us out of love, and exposed the salvation for the entire world through His Savior, Jesus Christ, Our Lord, the Son of God and Son of Man.

The Ordinary Time of the Liturgical Calendar is a period that proceeds from the experience with God in the secret of the manifestation, and which provokes the believer or followers of Christ to travel with Christ in their life. The Liturgy continues with the three revelations of Jesus.

• The first was his indication as the light and salvation to all people groups proved in His visit by the Magi who came looking for Jesus.
• The other one happens in the river Jordan where he is appeared as the beloved Son of God, so mankind also may perceive in him its child transport with God and initiation of general fraternity.

At Canna, He brings to satisfaction the motivation behind his coming, to be specific, another creation. He came to restore to the people the ability to live as a family. He is the new wine that gives pleasure and flavor to the family, the new wine moderated till the finish to show his greatness.

Prophet Isaiah in the main perusing, with the foundation of extinction and ruin, achieved by exile, and the suspected quiet of God, Isaiah guarantees another sunrise. Individuals had become hopeless, tragic, imagining that God had abandoned them due to their unfaithfulness. Be that as it may, Isaiah assurances them God's never-ending love and their justification. Yet again assuming individuals can be dedicated to God, God will make another covenant with them, communicated in a picture of the marital agreement. God guarantees them more than anything his suffering presence among them. God is consistently unselfish, cheers in the favorable luck of his youngsters.

The Gospel portrays the wedding feast at Canna. Weddings are a festival of life and all the integrity of life. In this way, weddings are additionally a happy occasion, a second where everybody accumulated cheers. During Jesus' occasions, wedding festivities would continue for quite a while, ordinarily for a really long time and in any event, for seven days. During this festival, the family needed to set up for everything so there was not much. Along these lines, running out of wine at the wedding feast at Canna, normally put the hosts in an awful light, humiliating them.

Mother Mary, understanding their unstable circumstance, demands Jesus to step in and save the family from humiliation and disgrace. What's more Jesus paying attention to the solicitation of his mom plays out the first of his signs. This sign at the wedding feast at Canna, draws out the affection and leniency of God. Typically signs in the scriptural setting had a more noteworthy importance than that which met the eye. 

St. John in his Gospel presents the seven signs

 enacted by Christ Jesus. By playing out this first sign, Jesus likewise uncovers his Messianic character. At Canna, Jesus changed water into wine as well as carried his followers from disbelief to conviction; their confidence in Jesus is confirmed. The marvel performed at Canna draws out a generous and kind God, who loves and watches out for his children, as uncovered in the life of Jesus. No one but Jesus can bring valid and enduring joy. He needs to impart his satisfaction to his devotees. Permitting Jesus into our day to day routines would change our lives, and make us cheerful individuals. Genuine satisfaction doesn't mean continuously grinning, or snickering, genuine delight is a demeanor of tolerating all life's circumstances with balance.

The wedding dining experience of Canna is likewise a foretelling of the Eucharist and the meal of the elite in paradise. God carries his children to this dining experience. The Eucharist is an indication of the standing presence of God. It is through the Eucharist; God imparts to us his affection and heavenly life and along these lines reinforces our adoration by changing us into him. Hence, by participating in Eucharist should make us nearer to one another pervaded with delight, tolerance, love and mercy of God, as communicated through Jesus to us.

All that the prophet Isaiah had since quite a while ago predicted

has its acknowledgment and satisfaction in Christ, specifically, humankind rejected on the earth that it had neglected its God, would be remarried and rejoined to its God and reestablished to joy and not any more dependent upon any vile detachment or depression.

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus, through our submersion we have the members of the Body of Christ as an individual from the Church, the Body of Christ, becoming joined to God and to our brothers and sisters, and offer in the salvation that the Lord Himself has brought us through His Son. Furthermore by the goodness of our sanctification as well, we have been made sharers in the love that God has promised to us. What stays for us to do is, for us to submit ourselves earnestly to Him, and put forth a fearless effort to wander in His way, consistently.

Allow all of us to look for the Lord with a reestablished heart and brain, dear people, realizing that God has cherished us so much, and how dearest we are, that He gave us His Son to be our Savior. Also currently, let us pay attention to Him and comply with Him, sin no more and do whatever we can, utilizing the abilities and open doors to bring about some benefit for other people. Allow every one of us to ask the Lord for the strength and direction to walk in His way, presently and consistently, and that we most definitely may become extraordinary good examples for each other.