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

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Catholic Culture : Commentary: Blog: "Sarah Palin and Pro-Choice Rhetoric Posted Sep. 26, 2008 5:24 PM || by Dr. Jeff Mirus || category Principles

One grows so very tired of pro-choice rhetoric. Thus Anna Quindlen commenting on Sarah Palin in the September 15th issue Newsweek:

The governor has talked about the choice she and her pregnant teenage daughter have made, but would deny other women the right to make their own choices. She talks about fighting the old boys’ network and corrupt politicians, but would turn over the private reproductive decisions of American women to both. This is not choosing life. It is choosing unwarranted intrusion into the family lives of women.

Really? So now we are not permitted to make a right choice unless we leave everyone else free to make the wrong choice? Perhaps Sarah Palin knows that excessive freedom to make wrong choices is one reason right choices are harder to make than they should be.

And now the decision of a woman to kill her baby is a “private reproductive decision”? Perhaps Sarah Palin knows that such decisions are intrinsically public, involving two people, one of whom is an unjust aggressor against the other.

And now laws which criminalize public immoral behavior are an “unwarranted intrusion” into family life? Perhaps Sarah Palin does not think of the American mother as a sort of neo-Roman Mater Familias with life and death control over everyone in her family.

Did you know that Quindlen’s column appears on the back page of Newsweek every other week, and is called “The Last Word”? Perhaps Sarah Palin knows that the last word is the one thing Anna Quindlen shouldn’t have."

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