Homily for the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Oftentimes, moments in your life seem amazing and you are loving every moment of it. The sacrifices are easy because you are so much in love with all of the many possibilities. However, what happens when years go by, and things get a little off track? You may become sad or angry and that greatly resembles those empty jars like the ones John refer to in the Gospel at the wedding of Cana. Stone jars, just like a heart that hardens with time due to disappointments and a lack of forgiveness. 

Sometimes the obligations, the worries that love can bring, empties us like those jars. If the jars are not refilled with the wine of joy and forgiveness they become worthless; they are the mere semblance of what they were, like our withered and angry hearts. Today, ask yourself what am I going to bring to my life? Do I want to bring empty jars with worries and struggles, or do I want to bring new wine? How much wine is left in your jar? Is there some left or should you organize yourself for a miracle?

Readings from January 16, 2022

Isaiah 62:1-5

Psalms 96:1-2, 2-3, 7-8, 9-10

1 Corinthians 12:4-11

John 2:1-11