Out of his own side he formed you, when for you he fell asleep on the cross and accepted the sleep of death ... Now you have been betrothed to him. Now the wedding feast is being celebrated; for indeed a banquet is being prepared in heaven and the eternal court. Will the wine give out there? Never think it! There we will be inebriated with the abundance of God's house and we will drink from the torrents of his delight. A river of wine has been prepared for this wedding - yes, of wine that gladdens the heart.
St Bernard of Clairvaux - from a sermon for the first Sunday after the Octave of the Epiphany, "On Changing Water into Wine".

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