2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace, for Jerusalem I will not keep silent, until her

holiness shines like the dawn and her salvation flames like a burning torch. The

nations will see your holiness and all the kings your glory. You will be called by a new

name which the mouth of Yahweh will reveal. You will be a crown of glory in the

hand of Yahweh, a royal diadem in the hand of your God. No longer will you be

named Forsaken; no longer will your land be called Abandoned; but you will be called

My Delight and your land Espoused. For Yahweh delights in you and will make your

land his spouse. As a young man marries a virgin, so will your builder marry you; and

as a bridegroom rejoices in his bride, so will your God rejoice in you.

There is diversity of gifts, but the Spirit is the same. There is diversity of ministries,

but the Lord is the same. There is diversity of works, but the same God works in all.

The Spirit reveals his presence in each one with a gift which is also a service. One is

to speak with wisdom, through the Spirit. Another teaches according to the same

Spirit. To another is given faith, in which the Spirit acts; to another the gift of healing,

and it is the same Spirit. Another works miracles, another is a prophet, another

recognizes what comes from the good or evil spirit; another speaks in tongues, and still

another interprets what has been said in tongues. And all of this is the work of the one

and only Spirit, who gives to each one as he so desires.

Three days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee and the mother of Jesus was

there. Jesus was also invited to the wedding with his disciples. When all the wine

provided for the celebration had been served and they had run out of wine, the mother

of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine." Jesus replied, "Woman, your thoughts are

not mine! My hour has not yet come." However his mother said to the servants, "Do

whatever he tells you." Nearby were six stone water jars meant for the ritual washing

as practiced by the Jews; each jar could hold twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the

servants, "Fill the jars with water." And they filled them to the brim. Then Jesus said,

"Now draw some out and take it to the steward." So they did. The steward tasted the

water that had become wine, without knowing from where it had come; for only the

servants who had drawn the water knew. So, he called the bridegroom to tell him,

"Everyone serves the best wine first and when people have drunk enough, he serves

that which is ordinary. Instead you have kept the best wine until the end." This

miraculous sign was the first, and Jesus performed it at Cana in Galilee. In this way he

let his Glory appear and his disciples believed in him.