John's Gospel has one of the greatest metaphors for the Divine-Human partnership, a Wedding Feast that threatens to go sideways, but, amazingly doesn't. Fr. Allen lets the story unspool using the technique of imagining the scene from Mary's perspective.
Image: JESUS MAFA. The Wedding at Cana, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48305 [retrieved January 23, 2025]. Original source: http://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr (contact page: https://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr/contact).