Today we read the passage of the wedding feast of Cana. Mary's words to Jesus certainly ring true for us at many times of our life, but especially for the people of Haiti and those affected by the Earthquake, "They have no more wine."
In deed the wine of joy has turned to a time of anxiety and fear and deep sorrow. A place of life is transformed into a place of death. Every hole becomes a grave and every building now rumble.
Many have died and even those who survived are still fighting for their life due to the lack of food and aid.
Rescue workers, around the clock, seek to reach into this land of desolation and devastation and despair to bring forth hope, a pinpoint of light, to keep alive the fight to live and recover in order to rebuild.
"They have no wine..."
But though the wine has run out, the hope remains.
Numerous people have arrived to offer aid, to help in the rescue, to provide for the helpless.
Countless dollars have already been pledged and given to be sent.
In the midst of such tragedy, the generosity of a people is made known. Love always outshines despair. When it is the darkest, light shines the brightest.
On the lips of the waiter in the passage of the Wedding feast we learn to savor what God offers right now. We discover that God does not hold back, that he provides, he brings out the "the good wine", a far better one than the inferior served first.
This is our hope that through the many volunteers and the money and aid the people of Haiti will experience a far better vintage than what they had before.
But this will require work and time. Together, as the body of Christ, the new wine can be poured and hope shall remain and light shall be given and the darkness shall vanish in the presence of the hands of those who give and through the knees of those who pray.
Pray and work and together something beautiful for God shall be revealed.
The hour has come for us to set aside our greed and selfishness and to reach out and remember, "what we've done to the least of our brothers and sisters, we have done to Him" who invites us to taste and see the goodness he brings by "doing whatever he tells us to do."
Mary, the fountain of hope leads us to the fountain of holiness and invites us to participate to build up the body of Christ.
Through the intercession of our Blessed Mother and by the grace of almighty God, our Father, in the union with the redemption of the Son and the power of the Holy SPirit, together by the work of our hands God shall be glorified and the people of Haiti shall know there is a God who cares and hope is not lost and light continues to shine.
"The kind of work God usually calls you to do is the work you most need to do and that the world needs most to have done...the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." Frederick Buechner
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