Water to Wine

a wedding homily

I.

In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

The book called The Song of Songs is a mystery, a riddle. Not so much a poem as a compilation of poems and poetic fragments, it is a puzzling work, and astonishingly erotic—which is appropriate, because love itself, including our love for God and God’s love for us, is suggestive and riddle-like, veiled…