Above: The Miracle at Cana, stained glass detail by Herbert Hendrie in St Mungo's Cathedral, Glasgow. Photo by Father Lawrence Lew, O.P.
O Mary, what were your thoughts at this time? Did you hear these words of your Son? When was the last time you had seen him, except at a distance? When was the last time he had spoken to you?
Perhaps it was the wedding at Cana, when your Fiat had reechoed in your ‘Do whatever he tells you,’ by which you gave the Son of God your permission, as it were, to begin his public ministry, that is, to begin his way to Calvary.
At Cana you too began a new role. There you spoke your last recorded words in Scripture. From then on your presence was to be a silent presence, doing and suffering along with Jesus all that he did and suffered, but hidden from the world. With Cana, his hidden life ended; your hidden life began.
Here again you renew your Fiat, but now in a silence so luminous it moves us to a fearful wonder. Now you are reminded – or is it we who need reminding? – that you are not absent from the public ministry of your Son, though your presence is silent and hidden.
Mary, who most profoundly heard the word of God and most perfectly did it, pray for us!
Saint Dominic, singularly devoted to our Blessed Lady, pray for us!
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