Cycle C, Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
C8 Skit Marriage Feast at
“God’s Miracle: When you share, you never run out.”
Written by Joan Y. Edwards
Copyright Ó 2004 Joan Y. Edwards
Gospel John 2:1-11 New
American Bible
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Characters:
Jesus
Mary
Server
Nathanael-Bartholomew, owner
of house and groom
Bride
John, disciple
Peter, disciple
James, disciple
Elizabeth, cousin of Mary
Nicodemus, the headwaiter:
Tom, teen at St. John Neumann
Joseph, teen at St. John
Neumann
Sarah, teen at St. John
Neumann (perhaps teacher or leader of Youth Group)
Betty, younger child at St.
John Neumann
Props: 6 big water jugs, 6 cardboard jugs, cutout
hands cut out with help that people need: Faith, Hope, Love, Time, Talents,
Treasure, Humor, Laughter, Healing, Prayer, Love, Forgiveness, Skills,
Knowledge, Understanding, Wisdom, Food, Clothing, Shelter, Money, Heat, Job, Care
Narrator: There was a wedding at Cana in
and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples were also invited to
the wedding. When the wine ran short,
the mother of Jesus said to him,
Mary: They have no wine. They had more guests than they expected. They have run out of wine.
Jesus: Woman, how does your
concern affect me? My hour has not yet come to show signs of my Father’s business.
Mary: Please, Son.
Help these people who are our friends.
Jesus: (Gives Mary a hug.) All right, Mother. I’ll do it for you.
Mary: Do whatever he tells you.
Server: Yes, ma’am.
Narrator: Now there were six stone water jars there for
Jewish ceremonial washings,
each holding twenty to thirty gallons.
Jesus told them:
Jesus: Fill those jars with water.
Servers: (Returning to Jesus) We
have filled them to the brim.
Jesus: Get a cup of it and take it to the
headwaiter.
Server #1: (Goes over to and
looks inside one of the jars.)
Whoa! Look at this. The water now looks like wine.
Server #2: Let’s take it to the headwaiter as Jesus
said.
Server #3 We’ll watch when he tastes it and see
if it is really wine.
Narrator: So they took it to the headwaiter. He tasted the water that had become wine.
Headwaiter: This is really good
wine. (walks
over to the bride and groom) Everyone usually serves good wine first, but you
have kept the good wine until now.
Server #1: It is wine.
This Jesus has performed a miracle.
He is more than man. He has Godly
powers.
Narrator: Jesus did this as the beginning of his
miraculous signs at Cana in
and so revealed that he was God, and his disciples began to believe in
him. Today the parishioners of St. John
Neumann Catholic Church in
Tom: What makes you
believe that Jesus Christ is God?
Sarah: I think Jesus
Christ is God because he did many things that people could never do.
Tom: You mean like
changing the water into wine at the Marriage Feast at
Joseph: Yes, and when
Jesus made his friend, Lazarus, come back to life
after he died.
Betty: It was a
miracle when he fed thousands of people with 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread that
a little boy was willing to share.
Sarah: And then, the
voice from heaven saying, “This is my beloved Son, listen to him.”
Tom: That answers it
for me. Jesus truly is the Son of
God.
Sarah: Jesus’ greatest
miracle was the love he showed for us by dying on the cross so that our sins
could be forgiven.
Joseph: It is because
of his love that God the Father forgives us of our sins and welcomes us into
heaven.
Tom: Sometimes I keep doing wrong things over and over again.
Will God forgive me, when I say to him, “I’m sorry.
Will you forgive me?”
Sarah: Even when
you’ve done something wrong seventy times seven times….490 times, God always
says, “Yes. I forgive you.”
Tom: That is truly a
miracle. Sometimes I get so angry with
my brother that I can’t forgive him.
Betty: Sometimes I
don’t share my candy with anybody. I’m afraid if I share, I won’t have any for
me.
Sarah: Mary had faith
that Jesus would help her at the Marriage Feast at
Joseph: What?
Sarah: When you reach out with one hand to help someone,
three hands reach out to help you.
Tom: Who comes to help
us?
Joseph: God, the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Tom: Man, Woman, Child.
Betty: Family, Friend,
Stranger.
Sarah: What gift might
they give you?
Tom: Time, Talents, Money.
Joseph: Prayer, Love, Forgiveness
Tom: Skills, Knowledge, Understanding
Betty: Food, Clothing,
Shelter
Sarah: (Water jug filled with many hands) When you use one of
these hands in your water jug to reach out to someone in need, God knows what
you need, and magically he gives you three new hands in your jug.
Tom and Joseph: Wow!
When we share, we have what we need and we never run out.
Sarah: Exactly!
Narrator: Those who have faith in God accomplish things
unknown for man. Time and time again the people at St. John Neumann Catholic
Church reach out to others in faith that God will always leave them with plenty
for themselves. With God’s help they perform the little miracles to help make
this world a better place. Holding hands with their neighbors, they continually
ask God to help them by saying the
Prayer of St. Francis
(Please join them by turning to the prayer inside the
front cover of your Breaking Bread hymnal.)
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where
there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness,
light; where there is sadness, joy.
O, Divine Master, grant that I may not so
much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to
be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning
that we are pardoned; it is in dying that we are born again to eternal life.