Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church
Hot Springs Village, Arkansas
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What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the opening words from today’s Gospel, “There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee.”  I always think, “oh I know this story, Jesus changes water into wine.”  That seems to be the point of the story.  It’s true, that miracle is full of meaning and symbolism: the abundance and the quality of the wine says so much about God’s great love for us.  But there is more.  We should not overlook that there would have been no wine, if Mary had not acted.  Mary saw the problem, understood the power that Jesus had and basically said, “Just do it.”

And John says in the last sentence of the Gospel that by this sign, Jesus “revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him.”  Now Christ could have revealed his glory, his power anyway he wanted, he does not really need us.  But he choses to do it through people, in this instance it was Mary.

And so it is in our lives, in our families, in our community.  The glory of Christ remains hidden, dormant, unrevealed, unless we become involved.  Grapes would not become wine, wine would not become the blood of Christ without us.  The world can not see the glory of Christ without our involvement.

When we forgive someone who has injured us, when we reach out to heal a broken relationship in our families, in our neighborhood, wherever it may be, the glory of Christ is revealed.  When we visit an elderly friend confined to home or at Good Sam’s, the glory of Christ is revealed.  When we visit someone in the hospital, serve meals to the homeless, march with people calling for the recognition and protection of human life, Christ’s glory is revealed.  The list of possibilities could go on and on; it is limited only by our imagination and willingness to become involved.

We are into the movie award season and I thought of the 1993 movie that won 7 Academy Awards, 3 Golden Globes and 24 other international awards:  Schindler’s List.

Schindler was a German industrialist, a playboy and an opportunist.  At the start of World War II, he came up with a scheme for providing cheap labor to operate his munitions factories.  He employed Jews and convinced the Nazis that they were needed for the war effort.  As long as they were on Schindler’s list, they were spared from the concentration camps.

But as the war went on, he began to see his Jewish laborers as human beings, victims of unspeakable horrors.  And so, gradually, he became their protector, adding more and more to his lists; turning out defective weapons, and risking his own life in the process.  Then the final scene, where Schindler, overcome by what has happened, surveys the small band of Jews he has saved and muses that he could have sold his expensive car and purchased the freedom of a few more Jews.  Weeping, he laments, “I could have bought more, I could have bought more.”  In the face of all he had done, he thought only of how much more he could have done. 

We all could do more.  We all could do more to reveal the glory of Christ in our world.  If we grow weary at times of trying to restore relationships, visiting the sick, clothing the naked, feeding the hungry, we need only remember Schindler’s lament.  We could have done more.

The glory of God is revealed in so much of what we do, but the glory of Christ is revealed par excellence in the Eucharist.  But even there, human involvement is indispensable.  We carry up the bread and wine, simple elements that human hands prepared.  And in so doing we offer ourselves to God so that we may become like him and reveal his glory on earth.  When we receive the Body of Christ in our hands, drink his blood, let us pray that we may be transformed into a people more capable of revealing the glory of Christ in the world.

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Mass Times

Tuesday, Thursday, Friday   9:00 am
Wednesday   4:00 pm
First Saturday   9:00 am
Saturday    5:00 pm 
Sunday   8:00 am
10:00 am
Holy Day Vigil (with obligation) As announced
Holy Day (with or without obligation)   9:00 am


Confession Schedule
Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 8:40 to 8:55 am
Wednesday 3:30 to 3:50 pm
Saturday 4:00 to 4:45 pm
By Appointment Call Pastor