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

causes us to sin

Question from Anonymous on 3/22/2008:

Does "If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell" mean that whatever is causing us to sin we need to eliminate from our lives?

Answer by Fr. John Echert on 3/26/2008:
It would certainly mean that if something were evil or an occasion of sin for someone but not necessarily in all instances, when something is morally neutral or good. I would want concrete examples of what you had in mind.

Father Echert

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)