Lectio Divina: For Second Week in Ordinary Time - Cycle C

Please read slowly and reflectively.

Slowly count to five at the end of each line.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL OF JESUS ACCORDING TO JOHN (FIRST READER ONLY)

THERE WAS A WEDDING AT CANA IN GALILEE./

JESUS, HIS DISCIPLES, AND HIS MOTHER WERE THERE./

WHEN THE WINE RAN SHORT, MARY SAID TO JESUS, ”THEY HAVE NO WINE.”/

“WOMAN, HE SAID, YOUR THOUGHTS ARE NOT MINE./

MY HOUR HAS NOT YET COME.”/

SHE SAID TO THE SERVERS, “DO WHATEVER HE TELLS YOU.”/

JESUS TOLD THEM, “FILL SIX STONE JARS WITH WATER.”/

(EACH JAR HELD TWENTY TO THIRTY GALLONS.)/

“NOW, DRAW SOME OUT AND TAKE IT TO THE STEWARD.”/

AFTER TASTING IT, THE STEWARD IMMEDIATELY CALLED THE BRIDEGROOM./

“EVERYONE SERVES THE BEST WINE FIRST, BUT YOU HAVE KEPT THE BEST WINE UNTIL THE END.”/

AFTER THIS, HIS DISCIPLES BELIEVED IN HIM./