#The Wedding of Cana

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Today the second Sunday in Epiphany was celebrated in the medieval liturgical calendar as the Feast or the Wedding of Cana, the occasion of turning water into wine. This miniature front page taken from the Bamberger Psalter, with bright colors on a gold background, shows the feast meal and, in the lower register, a servant filling with water from strongly colored jars. The Bamberger Psalter was made in Bamberg or Regensburg around 1230 CE by unknown artists. Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, ms Msc. Bibl. 48, f° 60v. :: [Robert Scott Horton]

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The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre— To be redeemed from fire by fire.

Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

— T. S. Eliot, 'The Four Quartets.' 

From Part IV. A Shrove Tuesday meditation.

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Die Hochzeit zu Kana von Bernardo Strozzi (oil on canvas)

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Alcoholics Anonymous

30 AD

Eight years! For eight years, i've been on the wagon! Yesterday, I am at that party, drink water as always, and then this carpenter comes along...

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The wedding feast at Cana, Paolo Veronese, 1562-63

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Seen in 2024:

A Visit to the Louvre (Daniele Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub), 2004

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The Marriage Feast at Cana, Juan de Flandes, 1500

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1 E TRE giorni appresso, si fecero delle nozze in Cana di Galilea, e la madre di Gesù era quivi. 2 Or anche Gesù, co’ suoi discepoli, fu chiamato alle nozze. 3 Ed essendo venuto meno il vino, la madre di Gesù gli disse: Non hanno più vino. 4 Gesù le disse: Che v’è fra te e me, o donna? l’ora mia non è ancora venuta. 5 Sua madre disse ai servitori: Fate tutto ciò ch’egli vi dirà. 6 Or quivi erano sei pile di pietra, poste secondo l’usanza della purificazion dei Giudei, le quali contenevano due, o tre misure grandi per una. 7 Gesù disse loro: Empiete d’acqua le pile. Ed essi le empierono fino in cima. 8 Poi egli disse loro: Attingete ora, e portatelo allo scalco. Ed essi gliel portarono. 9 E come lo scalco ebbe assaggiata l’acqua ch’era stata fatta vino or egli non sapeva onde quel vino si fosse, ma ben lo sapevano i servitori che aveano attinta l’acqua, chiamò lo sposo, e gli disse: 10 Ogni uomo presenta prima il buon vino; e dopo che si è bevuto largamente, il men buono; ma tu hai serbato il buon vino infino ad ora. 11 Gesù fece questo principio di miracoli in Cana di Galilea, e manifestò la sua gloria; e i suoi discepoli credettero in lui.

Jesus turns Water into Wine

1 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”

4 “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”

5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

6 Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.

7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.

8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”

They did so, 9 and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10 and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”

11 What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. — John 2:1-11 | Giovanni Diodati Bibbia (GDB) and New International Version (NIV) La Sacra Bibbia 1649, Italian Giovanni Diodati Bibbia (Italian Edition Bible) and the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide. Cross References: Genesis 41:55; Exodus 14:31; 1 Kings 17:18; 1 Kings 17:24; Matthew 9:15; Matthew 12:46; Matthew 24:49; Matthew 27:34; Mark 7:3; Luke 12:45; Luke 16:6; John 1:29; John 1:40; John 2:17; John 3:25; John 7:6; Acts 2:15; 1 Corinthians 11:21

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THE WEDDING FEAST AT CANA

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The Wedding Feast at Cana,

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Meditations on the luminous mysteries in the LGBTQ rosary by Fr. Don Greene.

🖼️: Baptism of the Lord by Paolo Caliari

Wedding at Cana by Andrei Mironov

Christ Preaching at Capernaum by Maurycy Gottlieb

Transfiguration by Titian

Last Supper by Michael Wolgemut

[lisaeldritch]

Fell down the rabbit hole of "swedish folk art depicting biblical scenes but everyone is dressed like a late 18th- early 19th century peasant" for some reason.

I'm particularly fond of länsman Longinus and one magi rocking the stovepipe hats. Also, the disciples dressed as hussars.

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The Wedding at Cana (c.1725, oil on canvas) | Giovanni Paolo Panini

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Mona Lisa ile aynı salonda seninle karşı karşıyayız.Bir yanımda Sultan Süleyman bir yanımda Meryem annem...

Ve herkes, eksik olanı herşey zannediyor..

Garip bir muamma

[walterdecourceys]

👀!!!

The water bottles lurk ominously in the seat beside you. Neither of you have actually drank any yet, and you’re starting to wonder if the whole thing is just some weird stunt Naomi’s decided to pull. If you’ll both go home, the bottles still full, and she’ll dump them both down the sink as soon as you leave. If you’ll both come to school on Monday and act like nothing’s happened and it’ll just be added to the list of Things We Don’t Talk About, along with the time Naomi skipped school for half a day and Valentine’s Day in seventh grade, when Chatri asked you out and you were too nervous to even squeak out a no so Naomi had to write a note for you and deliver it to him the next day.  

seeing as i don't think we have like any fandoms in common you instead get a brief look into What If The Bible Went To Highschool. shoutout to naomi schwartz the most normal girl alive

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The Wedding Feast at Cana by Lavinia Fontana