My Catholic Perspective of Marriage
When a man becomes a husband, he gains the spiritual authority to bless his wife. HUSBANDS, USE YOUR AUTHORITY! The fact that Jesus performed his first public miracle at the wedding at Cana is very telling about how God feels about marriage: God will reveal His glory through your marriage if you are willing to give up your self-love, pick up your cross, and follow Him . Jesus’s First Public Miracle … Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs [ g ] in Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him… ( John 2). There is a third time in the Bible connecting Jesus to blood and water: The culmination of all of it was at the cross! When blood and water gushed forth from our beautiful crucified Christ! “but one soldier thrust his lance into his side, and immediately blood and water flowed out.” (John 19:34) So first Jesus turns water into wine, then blood and water gush forth from Him at the greatest moment in all humanity,...
