‘They have no more wine!’ showed Mary’s faith in Jesus

”They have no more wine!” Who knows how many times must Mary have uttered a prayer like this when, in the house of Nazareth, there was no more bread or whatever else she wanted to give to the poor. Certainly she knew that it was enough to ask her Divine Son to obtain what she desired. She knew by experience the ascendancy of her mediation over the Heart of Jesus…

It is nonsense to think that the Lord wanted to be independent of His Mother in His work of Redemption, when He entrusted all to her from the beginning and wanted to have her as Co-Redemptrix at the foot of the Cross. It is even more nonsensical to think that He wanted to reproach her when she was making a request out of charity…
 
With the words “They have no more wine,” Mary asked for a miracle: either the multiplication of the last drops of wine remaining in some of the vessels, or the transubstantiation of the water.

“My hour has not yet come.” Was Jesus thinking already in that moment of the hour of the Eucharistic banquet of the Last Supper? When He spoke in the Upper Room of His hour and of the desire with which He had desired it (Luke 22:15), it makes us believe that He was always thinking about it, because the very purpose of His love was that giving of Himself. His love had almost an aversion to the giving of wine: He wanted to give His blood. Since His hour had not yet come, He would have preferred that Mary perform the miracle.

But the Most Holy Virgin did not want to give only wine: she wanted to give His apostles a reason for faith in Jesus. She wanted to strengthen them with a miracle. For this reason, she persisted with Jesus for an action, saying to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.” By her quick insight, she immediately understood her Son’s allusion to transubstantiation, and she engaged the servants to provide the water for the miracle. As we can see, instead of being apart from or almost strangers to each other, Jesus and Mary understood each other at once.

Jesus changed the water into excellent wine. The hour to give His own blood had not yet come, but He wanted, with that miracle, to foreshadow the greatest miracle of His love. Interiorly, He said to the water, “This is the wine for the chief steward of the banquet,” just as one day He would say over the wine: “This is my Blood, which shall be shed for you.” The water immediately became wine, “and His disciples believed in Him.”