After an obscurity of many years, the Blessed Virgin appears again in company with her Divine Son at the marriage-feast of Cana. Like everything else in the Gospel, this event is the solemn teaching of great truths for the guidance of mankind. It is not a casual interlude, but it marks a definite stage in the progressive revelation of Our Lord. It shows us the relations between Jesus and His holy Mother, and the relations between her and mankind. It exhibits her virtues, her power of intercession, and the favours temporal and spiritual granted on her occasion. At this time Jesus was not yet manifested, He was only on the point of making the commencement of His preaching and miracles. His time, as He says, was not yet come. The intervention of Our Lady hastened that moment, and elicited His miraculous power for the first time. She alone knew who He was and had faith in Him, and she became the cause of the faith that was awakened in His disciples. Once again, as before, we find her presenting Jesus to the world, and in a manner opening for Him the second part of His career, by the miracle worked at her intercession. The Blessed Virgin is shown by this to have the function of presenting Christ to us and bringing light and grace into our souls. Beseech her to be present with you in company with her Son, as at Cana.
