Yesterday the priest was speaking of the three celebrated Epiphanies of the Lord. This was in conjunction with the gospel reading. The three are the Visit of the Magi where Jesus manifests himself to the Gentiles. The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordon is the second in which he manifests himself to the world as the Son of God. The third as found in yesterdays gospel is the wedding of Cana in which Jesus again manifests himself in the beginning of his public ministry.
| 1 | On the third day there was a marriage at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; |
| 2 | Jesus also was invited to the marriage, with his disciples. |
| 3 | When the wine failed, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine." |
| 4 | And Jesus said to her, "O woman, what have you to do with me? My hour has not yet come." |
| 5 | His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you." |
| 6 | Now six stone jars were standing there, for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. |
| 7 | Jesus said to them, "Fill the jars with water." And they filled them up to the brim. |
| 8 | He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the steward of the feast." So they took it. |
| 9 | When the steward of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward of the feast called the bridegroom |
| 10 | and said to him, "Every man serves the good wine first; and when men have drunk freely, then the poor wine; but you have kept the good wine until now." |
| 11 | This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed in him. |
These Epiphanies, or manifestations, point towards the Divinity in the Humanity of Jesus. They point toward God in the work of redemption. These three were expositions of Jesus' divinity but there are other expositions of God in his Creation which we have with us on a daily basis but who is it that acknowledges them.
“My daughter, for you there is no need to expose
[the Blessed Sacrament], because for whoever does My Will,
It has the greatest and most continuous exposition in all of creation. Actually, every created thing, because it is
animated by It, forms as many expositions for as many things as exist. What forms My Divine Life in the Eucharist? My Will.
If the Sacramental Host were not animated by My Supreme Will, Divine
Life would not exist within it; it would be a simple white host not meriting the adoration of the faithful.
“Now, My
daughter, My Will has Its exposition in
the sun, and just as My Will is veiled in the Hosts, hiding My Life, so It has the veils of
light in the sun which hide My Life. Yet
who is it that genuflects, who sends an act of adoration, who says a ‘Thank You’ to My Will exposed
in the sun? No one - what ingratitude! But
even with all that It is not inhibited, It is always stable in doing good
within Its veils of light. It follows
man’s steps, empowering his actions; whichever way he
takes It’s light is to be found in front of and behind him, carrying him in
triumph, carrying him in Its womb of
light to do him good It is disposed to do him good and to give him light, even
when he does not want it.
“Oh Will of
Mine, how invincible, lovable, admirable, and unchanging in good, untiring
without ever retreating [You are]! Do
you see the great difference between the exposition of
the Eucharist and
the continuous act of exposition which My Will has in all created things? In the exposition of the Eucharist man must
be bothered - he must go, draw near, dispose himself to receive the good;
otherwise he receives nothing. On the
other hand in the exposition of My Will in created things It goes Itself to man
to eliminate his bother, and in spite of the fact that he is not even disposed,
My Will is very free and drowns man with Its goods. But there is no one who adores My Eternal
Will and all It’s expositions.
“The sun,
symbol of
the Eucharist, gives its light, its heat, its innumerable goods, but always in
silence, it never says a word, never chastises, in
spite of the many horrendous evils it
sees. In the sea, however, under the veils of
the water, It gives Its exposition in a
different way. It speaks as It forms Its
whisperings in
the veils of the water, It strikes fear in the tumultuous breakers and in [the
sea’s] rumbling waves. If
It overwhelms boats and
people, It can bury them in the depths of the sea
without anyone being able to resist. My
Will in the sea makes an exposition of Its Power and
speaks in the whisperings, speaks in the breakers, speaks in the highest waves,
calling man to love It and fear It, and seeing Itself not listened to makes an
exposition of the Divine Justice, changing those veils into storms which
unfurl unavoidably against man.
“Oh! If the creatures paid attention to all the
expositions which My Will makes in all of creation, they would need to stay
always in an act of adoration to
adore My Will exposed in the flowered fields with
its radiant scents, in the loaded fruit trees with
their variety of sweet flavors.
There is no created thing which does not have its special Divine
exposition, and because the creatures do not bestow
the honors upon [My Will in creation] as they should, it’s up to you to
maintain perpetual adoration in the exposition that the Supreme Fiat has in all
of creation. My daughter, let it be you
who offers herself as a perpetual adorer of this Will, for now It is absent of
adorers and receives no exchange of love on the part of the creature.
Vol. 21, Feb. 26, 1921It always amazes me that atheists can seem to be blind to the presence of God when surrounded by such magnificence and harmony in the Creation. But I must also confess that I too can be so wrapped up in my own little existence that I too miss the opportunity to see truly the expression of God all around me.
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