Week IV John 2:1-11, Wedding at Cana Major Topics
Writing Style of John
Mary, the second Eve
Jesus vs Moses
Wine or Grape Juice?
Sacrament of Marriage
Writing Style of John
How many parables John used in this Gospel?
Chiastic structure is a literary structure which comprises concepts or ideas in an order ABC…CBA so that the first concept that comes up is also the last, the second is the second to last, and so on.
Number
John 2:1
“Third day”? What does it remind you? Why did John put this sign on the 3rd day?
-New creation,
How did John refer to Mary?
John 2:3
What did Mary do in such situation?
-To intercede is to go or come between two parties, to plead before one of them on behalf of the other.
-"Mediation" means a standing in the midst between two (contending) parties, for the purpose of bringing them together
-invocation: a form of prayer invoking God's presence
John 2:4
How did Jesus react to Mom’s request? Was Jesus angry at Mom’s request?
-Luke 8:28
What does “my Hour” mean?
John 2:5
What did Mary do? Did she expect a miracle?
How does the Church view the “ministry” of Mary? What do her life and example teach us?
-CCC 494
Mary, the Second Eve
How did Jesus call her? Where else did He call this way? Did John make a mistake?
-Gen 3:15, Rev 12:1-6, CCC2618
What’s Mary’s relationship with Jesus?
-CCC 964, 969
John 2:6
What were the stone water pots for? How many were they?
-Num19:9, Mark 7:2-5
Why did John emphasize the function of the pots?
-John 1:17
John 2:7-11
What did Jesus told them to do? What did they do?
-John 1:16
What does John call this miracle?
-Sign: an appeal to intelligence, and expresses the purpose or final cause of the miracle.
Jesus vs Moses
John 1:17
-1st sign: turn water into blood (Ex 7:20)
-container: everything (even stone pots) (Ex 7:19)
-results: fish dead, no fit for drinking (Ex 7:21)
Marriage Feast
What future event the marriage feast might point forward to?
-CCC2618, 1244 Rev 19:7-9
Wine or Grape Juice?
Theology of wine
-“where there is no wine, there’s no joy”
What’s the Catholic attitude toward wine?
-CCC2290
Sacrament of Marriage
What John 2 teach us about Jesus’ attitude toward marriage?
-CCC1613
Catholic teaching about marriage
-CCC 372,1603, 1660
posted by Way | 8:57 AM
2 Comments:
what is the significance of the wedding occurring in Cana...in
Galilee?
This is a tough question. I googled for days without a result. Then I went to check some old books and find a satisfying answer (Thanks, Marquette Library)
From St. Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on the Gospel of St. John, Vol 1, pg 151
338 …The place too is appropriate. For "Cana" means "zeal," and "Galilee" means "passage." So this marriage was celebrated in the zeal of a passage, to suggest that those persons are most worthy of union with Christ who, burning with the zeal of a conscientious devotion, pass over from the state of guilt to the grace of the Church. "Pass over to me, all who desire me". And they pass from death to life, i.e., from the state of mortality and misery to the state of immortality and glory: "I make all things new" (Rv 21:5).
Also some interesting facts on Catholic Encyclopedia:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03226a.htm
enjoy!
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