Check out these compelling lines from a 6th century Greek Orthodox hymnographer named St. Romanus the Melodist. He writes about Jesus’s first miracle of turning water into wine at Cana in Galilee:
When Christ, as a sign of His power, clearly
changed the water into wine
All the crowd rejoiced, for they considered the
taste marvelous.
Now we all partake at the banquet in the
church
For Christ’s blood is changed into wine
And we drink it with holy joy,
Praising the great bridegroom,
For he is the true bridegroom, the Son of
Mary,
The Word before all time who took the form
of a servant,
He who has in wisdom created all things.
Words on the Word 