Second Sunday of the Year
Is 62:1-5; 1 Cor 12:4-11; Jn 2:1-11 (Year C)
"About Zion I will not be silent … No longer are you to be named ‘Forsaken’, nor your land ‘Abandoned’, but you shall be called ‘My Delight’ and your land ‘The Wedded’; for the Lord takes delight in you, and your land shall have its wedding. As a bridegroom rejoices in his bride, so will your God rejoice in you.”
No commentator’s words could do justice to the prophet Isaiah’s proclamation of God’s promised salvation. These words were spoken to a people who had known the darkest of nights during the Babylonian exile. They had indeed felt abandoned and forsaken by God. They had longed for the comfort of his presence. The grace of his salvation would outstrip any human expectation: “Like a young man marrying a virgin, so will the one who built you wed you.”
