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...your Dec. 6 Letters column: I wonder if Bill Kurschinski really understands the New Testament. He claims the Virgin Mary never influenced Christ. Tell him to read carefully the wedding in Cana...
...illustrate this he drew particular attention to the New Testament parable of Jesus' changing water to wine at Cana at the beginning of his ministry. "We must not laugh at this as a silly myth in the light of our modern knowledge, but must realize its meaning," Pusey stated...
...robe, his slave and apparently his sanity. Returned to Italy, he becomes convinced that he was bewitched by the dead Messiah, and accepts an imperial commission to go back to Palestine to investigate the un-Roman activities of the new sect. He finds Mature and the robe at Cana, in Galilee, but exposure to the gentle habits of the Cana Christians puts him on the road to conversion. The final act is played in Rome, with Caligula on the throne and the Christians hiding in the catacombs. The picture ends as Burton defends his new faith before the demented Emperor...
...Mitchell, Ind., Harold C. Feightner, executive director of the Indiana Brewers Association, agreed to give "the other side of the case" at a camp meeting of Methodist youth. Feightner traced the course of Biblical wine-bibbing from Noah to the marriage at Cana, summed up: "The builders of the Bible saw virtue in the cultivation of the vine and the moderate use of its product." His audience, totally abstaining from applause, preferred the other invited speakers: a basketball star, a social worker, a judge, and two members of Alcoholics Anonymous...
Living Roots. Some critics call Prefet DuFaut's Temptation unconsciously Byzantine; others can see no sign of Christian elements in it. Wilson Bigaud, who attends voodoo rites more often than church, made his Wedding at Cana a lively Haitian party dominated by a Christ with a weak, drained face and a mighty hand ("He is praying that the miracle will be a success," Bigaud says). Leontus' Annunciation, boldly composed to fill a difficult, wedge-shaped corner, has a full measure of the urgency that marks the cathedral's best murals...