Day 195: New Wine, New Life
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What is the Rosary in a Year podcast and how can I access the prayer plan?
Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars at the Renewal and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast where through prayer and meditation, the Rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world. The Rosary in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. This is day 195. This is day 195. to download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year, visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text R-I-Y to 33777. You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to track your progress. The best place to listen to the podcast is in the Ascension app. There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full rosary with myself and other friars.
I encourage you to pick up a copy of the Rosary in a Year prayer guide, a book published by Ascension that was designed to complement this podcast. You'll find all the daily readings from scripture, saint reflections, and beautiful images of the sacred art we'll be reflecting on. Today, we will be praying with and meditating upon the second Illuminist mystery, the wedding feast at Cana. All right, to begin, we'll go ahead and call to mind again some of what we have already reflected on pertaining to the wedding feast at Cana. And of course, the gospel account that correlates to this mystery comes from John 2, verses 1 through 12. And one detail that we noted that I'd like to highlight again are Mary's words, right?
Mary sees they're out of wine. She goes to Jesus, tells him the situation. They have a conversation. And then Mary's last contribution in the context of that conversation, the last word she speaks are do whatever he tells you. Do whatever he tells you. And these are Mary's last words in scriptures. These words that we want to continue to like echo in our minds, in our hearts. Do whatever he tells you. Do whatever he tells you. And how great these words are when we are perhaps experiencing temptation. How great these words are when we feel like our lives, our situations have run out of wine. We can't necessarily solve the problem. Like in the context of the wedding feast, we can't provide wine out of nowhere, but we can do whatever he tells you.
And so we can just sit and receive those words again. Whatever context we find ourselves in, Mary's saying to us, do whatever he tells you. I think a second really important note to highlight again about the wedding feast of Cana is we see the newness of Jesus being revealed. Jesus as the new bridegroom who gives us the new wine. We have the imagery of the six jars being turned from water to wine. And we see Jesus being this living, if you will, seventh day, this living fulfillment as Jesus. Six water jars are filled with water and they become wine. These six days of creation that are going to be fulfilled with the seventh day, with the Sabbath. We see Jesus foreshadowing the new creation. Jesus, the new temple.
He is the Lord of the Sabbath. He is the new one, right? And this is what is being revealed in this second luminous mystery, where we see the kingdom revealed in Jesus Christ. Jesus is here. He is fulfilling. He is doing something new. New hope, new creation, new wine, new bridegroom, new access to God in Jesus. Now, also during our time of Lectio Divina with John chapter two, one of the themes that came to the surface from our prayer with the wedding feast of Cana was just this reminder, the reality that Mary and Jesus, they see us, right? Like at the wedding feast of Cana, they're in conversation about you. They're concerned, they're invested. They know your name. They know your needs and they're already doing something to respond to your needs.
And so an invitation for prayer is just to be there, to be where you are and to experience, to call to mind both Mary and Jesus being together, seeing you, talking about your needs, responding to it. For me, this is a great source of both consolation and comfort. Like we're not in it alone. You're seeing in your situation and also comfort because you're not in it alone.
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4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–0:04
2
What is the Rosary in a Year podcast and how can I access the prayer plan?
0:04–5:24
3
Which mystery is being prayed today and what scripture passage does it come from?
5:24–10:05
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Why are Mary's words 'Do whatever He tells you' significant at Cana?
10:05–14:17