At the Wedding Feast at Cana, Our Blessed Mother says to her Son, “They have no wine.” In this simple statement of need, confident that Our compassionate Lord would provide for this new couple, Mary teaches us how to pray.

In Mt. 7:7, Mt.21:22, Lk. 11:9 & 10 and Jn 15:17, we learn from her Beloved Son to simply ask in faith and it will be given.

Our Lady, so sure of her Son’s munificence, is undaunted by Jesus’ reply, “What this between you and between Me? My hour has not yet come.” (Jn 2:4) She simply turns to the servants and gives the direction to, “Do whatever He tells you.” (Jn 2:5)

How could Jesus deny her anything: she who always did the Father’s Will, even when it was inconvenient? Think of the Annunciation, Mary knew that in her culture she could have been stoned to death if her child didn’t belong to her husband; and the Nativity, having to travel several miles on the back of a donkey in her 9th month of pregnancy and having nowhere to stay when they arrive in Bethlehem, giving birth in a stable among the animals; there’s also the Flight to Egypt in the middle of the night. Mary spent her entire life completely abandoned to the Father’s Will.

We too, when generous in abandoning ourselves to God’s Providence, will receive what we ask for as Jesus taught us in the Sermon on the Plain, “Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you.” (Lk 6:38)

So when we pray let us remember that, “whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever reaps bountifully will also reap bountifully.” (2 Cor 9:6)