From The Loyola Kids Book of Bibles Stories.
Link does not go to Amazon, but to the Loyola site. Of course, the book is available through Amazon, but my preference is that if you purchase it – and I hope you do! – you will do so through Loyola or a Catholic bookstore, either online or brick-and-mortar.
Remember, the stories are arranged in this book according to when a child would most like to hear them during the liturgical year.
So…here we are in Ordinary Time!
I am doing a bit more over at Instagram. No, not posting little micro-blogs, but trying to learn more about Reels and other elements. I want to figure this out now so I can do what I want to do more easily and quickly when the time comes that I hit the road again and do more traveling. So you can go there for a post related to this one – it’s all super simple at this point.
The Church sees the miracle at Cana as a “confirmation of the goodness of marriage” (CCC 1613). But there is also a connection to baptism, for the jars used in the miracle were for ceremonial washings, for ritual purification from defilement. In the waters of baptism, we are cleansed by God’s grace and transformed by his power. Through baptism we become members of the Church, the bride of Christ, and are invited to partake of the blood of the bridegroom (CCC 1335).
“Now we all partake at the banquet in the church,” wrote the sixth-century saint, Romanus Melodus, “For Christ’s blood is changed into wine/And we drink it with holy joy/Praising the great bridegroom.”
First water, then wine; first baptism, then Eucharist. By these sacraments, perceptible signs, we are changed, cleansed, fed—and wed.
The background screens depict the Six Ages of the World, and the Creation and Fall of Adam and Eve. The jars represent the Six Days of Creation.