When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, They have no wine. (And) Jesus said to her, Woman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come. His mother said to the servers, Do whatever he tells you. Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings, each holding twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus told them, Fill the jars with water. So they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter. So they took it. And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it came from (although the servers who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom and said to him, Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now. Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs in Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him. -The 2nd Luminous Mystery

 

Rome, Oct. 10, 2007 (CWNews.com) - The Vatican newspaper has renewed questions about the death of an underground Catholic bishop.

L'Osservatore Romano called attention to the mysterious circumstances surrounding the September 7 death of Bishop Han Dinxiang, who had spent the last 8 years of his life in government custody.

Bishop Dinxiang, who had spent a total of 35 years in prison, had been held at an undisclosed location for two years before his relatives were suddenly summoned to his bedside. Within hours after his death, the bishop's body had been cremated and his remains buried. An armed guard has now been stationed at his grave, L'Osservatore Romano noted, in an obvious effort to discourage visitors.

Chinese Catholics have questioned whether the bishop, who died at the age of 71, had been tortured during his captivity.

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