Jesus Christ according to Saint John 2,1-11

« There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples were also invited
to the wedding.»

I can think of something to add to the comment I have already published on January 21, 2019, which can be recalled BY CLICKING HERE (italian only - to return use the browser or the menu on the left).

At the wedding in Cana, Jesus transforms water into excellent wine

In the first place, from the evangelist's account, it seems clear to me that the Blessed Virgin was the guest at the wedding dinner as a highly respected person, today she would be called a VIP.
It was for this reason that ALSO her son Jesus with the disciples were invited to the wedding, because among other things at that time a woman could not appear alone at a party.
Second, but no less important, it is equally evident that the Blessed Virgin always had assiduous and affectionate attention to her neighbors, who on that occasion were the spouse and wife in particular, but also their guests.
The Virgin Mary, attentive to everything at all times, immediately notices that there is no wine, and she worries that spouse and his family will not make a bad impression and be the subject of criticism. She then asks her Son to provide. And Jesus grants everything to his mother.

I am convinced, even more so, that in order to please God it is essential to be devout admirers of the Most Holy Mary, to love her with all our hearts and above all to imitate her in our daily lives.
And to imitate her, we too, within the limits of our possibilities, must devote attention to our neighbors, the same attention that she had at the wedding in Cana and that she still has for all of us today.
I will not repeat here what 'our neighbor' means, which I have already described extensively on other occasions, but I reiterate that this attention is essential if we want to sanctify our ordinary life in order to be Christ followers.

In my case I pray assiduously, I also ask the Blessed Virgin Mary to assist me in the needs and situations of daily life, especially not to allow me to distance myself from Jesus.
I declare Her my love and gratitude and I also ask Her to grant me that her friendship strengthens me in Faith, Charity and Hope, and that when and as God wants she will come to take me when I'll cross the road to the afterlife.

So what really does matter in this world is to strive following the Christ's teachings. Thus it's necessary in my opinion to read a passage from the Gospel every single day, to pray and meditate about.
But this isn't enough: it is also necessary to read, to study and to research in order to understand how each of us, in the position in which God wanted to place, and according to our concrete responsibilities, can correctly contextualize the evangelical teaching in the actual reality and strive to apply it in the everyday's practice.

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HISTORICAL NOTES

Was the Holy Family modest and poor when not indigent?
It seems evident that in the centuries of poverty and economic decline that followed the decline and dissolution of the Western Empire, when serious and generalized states of food shortages and widespread famine were added to the usual diseases and plagues, it seemed necessary in the Church to flaunt pauperism, almost always understood as personal sacrifice to try to imitate Christ, the poor and humble par excellence.
At those times reading and writing assumed the character of being reserved, a privilege of the Church and of other 'insiders'. Among the rest of the population, including the nobility, illiteracy was the rule, and in the middle age the relationships between men were intended as regulated by God (trough the Church).
In the middle age there also arose movements of rebellion against the severe and sad living conditions of many poor areas, and somewhere to the preaching was also added violence and expropriation against the wealthiest, real acts of banditry carried out in the name of the evangelical poverty message and of the aid to the poor. The most famous is the movement of Frate Dolcino, a real forerunner of Marx and of Catholic distributism.
Obviously the current Marxians see the his figure according to their ideology and do not particularly mention the crimes committed by his bands of followers and desperate people.
In the Middle Ages there were also hermits, ascetics, and great saints such as St. Francis of Assisi (Assisi, 1181/1182 – Assisi, october 3 1226) who made his rule of life the absolute poverty.

Jesus' family was by no means poor, nor were common people their relatives

Personally I am somewhat irritated by certain narratives and certain media representations, when history is distorted to the advantage of the ideology of the politically correct, and also quite useful to the detractors of the Catholic faith.
There were those, for example, who even depicted Saint Joseph as a poor outcast unemployed because of the economic crisis (but which one?), and the Virgin Mary a housewife who took care of the house, maybe picking up here and there and doing the most humble works, and perhaps struggling to put together lunch and dinner.
It also irritates me - fortunately it happens more rarely today - when some Catholic priests in their homilies have stopped explaining the gospel, dealing more with Caesar's affairs and less with God, then misunderstand the evangelical teaching and the history of the Jesus's time. THEREFORE I HAVE THE OBLIGATION TO CLARIFY THAT:

• St. Joachim (Joaquim) father of Mary was an important priest of the Temple, and descended from King David.
• St Anne and St Joachim were very rich too, and not just wealthy.
• The Virgin Mary, Anna and Joachim daughter, was a noble girl educated in the temple (you can see why in the scriptures. Which was rare for Jewish women, she could read and write and also had a good cultural background in general.
  For us believers the Virgin is also a marvel of intelligence and beauty, having been conceived without the original sin that instead afflicts us all.
• Saint Joseph, who descended from King David too, the vulgate defines him as a carpenter, in reality we see that in the ancient Latin translation of the Gospels he is called FABER (builder, constructor) and not LIGNARIUS (carpenter).
  Joseph, the carpenter referred to in the Gospels was probably therefore a costructor and not a modest skilled worker.
  But, after all, we can also imagine the importance that good and skilled artisans had in those times when everything was handmade.

Today's mistake

According to my modest opinion is therefore an error to interpret the Scriptures, the discourse of the Beatitudes for example, according to medieval and obsolete categories, that is do not investigating their true meaning.
If we read and meditate the Holy Gospels in a rational way by relating them to the history of the time, in my opinion we will have the confirmation - even if it were needed - that the preaching of Jesus is current and very lively.
Jesus Christ always makes it clear:

• His teaching is directed to the individual person, who in ordinary life and according to his possibilities must strive to understand it in order to put it into practice. Heroism belongs to a few while the sanctity of ordinary life can be a goal for everyone.
  
  
• That political and personal ethics, although inspired by the same principles, cannot be applied with the same practice.
  In particular, the episode of the Centurion's servant and the "give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar" clarify our ideas.
  And the concept of the legitimate defense of one's family and property is also included in some passage-
  

If not committing the mistake of today, that is trying to avoid the influence of Marxian distortions, the Gospel can be applied and put into practice in harmony with the evolution of all times' human society.

Let us give a contribute that the Christ's question: «when I return will I still find faith on Earth?» shall find a positive answer, and that the Faith remain and indeed increase.

  No fear! the Mercy of Jesus
  is INFINITE