Second Sunday of Ordinary Time – Jan 19, 2025
What would have happened at the banquet if Mary had not paid attention to the kitchen staff and spoken up when she saw their urgent need? It was her intervention and concern that set Jesus’s first miracle into motion. Even Jesus was not ready for his debut, protesting that his hour had not yet come. But Mary would not wait, even if he was the savior of the world.
The prophet cries out, “For Zion’s sake I will not be silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet, until her vindication shines forth like the dawn and her victory like a burning torch” (Is 62:1). The reign of God will not remain in the background, behind the scenes at the margins of life.
The reign of God will not remain in the background, behind the scenes at the margins of life.
Its urgency will break forth into our most ordinary and public moments, those settings we think too mundane or too human for God to be found, much less to engage with—among raucous partygoers drinking more than their hosts could provide; in our embarrassment over our mistakes and poor planning; in the woman unabashedly demanding more and fearlessly taking action when no one else would.
As we count the weeks toward Lent in this time called “ordinary,” let us look for and announce God’s insistent reign perched at the edges of our attention, ready to transform our ordinary water into wine.
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