“The blind recover their sight, cripples walk, lepers are cured, the deaf hear, dead men are raised to life, and the poor have the Good News preached to them” (Matthew 11:5).
In one of the chapels in London’s Westminster Cathedral, there is a beautiful mosaic depicting the miracle at Cana where Jesus changed water into wine. In the mosaic, a man is pouring water from one jug into another. The water pouring out of the first jug is a radiant ocean-blue. But as it nears the mouth of the second jug it becomes a deep shade of purple. As you look at the mosaic, you get the feeling that water is turning into wine right before your very eyes. Author Jim Forest has written that until he had seen the mosaic, it had never occurred to him that this first miraculous sign of Jesus — a miracle of transformation — is a key to understanding everything in the Gospel. “Jesus is constantly involved in transformation:…
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