"Mary had a word of compassion with God, when, at the marriage feast, she said to her Son, "They have no wine." This is against the unmerciful, who are not moved by the want of piety in others, and who never exhort their neighbors. Alas! now, O Mary, behold there is still need that you suggest to your Son that there are many among us who have no wine; the wine of the grace of the Holy Spirit the wine of compunction; the wine of piety, the wine of spiritual consolation. Of this St. Bernard says: "How often is it necessary for me, brethren, after tearful complaints, to entreat the Mother of Mercy that she would suggest to her benign Son that you have no wine; and, dearly beloved, I tell you if you would but piously demand, there would be nothing wanting to your necessity, since she is the merciful Mother of Mercy." K. H. Digby, Ages of Faith.
Source of quotation: "Fountain of Living Water" by Rev. A. A. Lambing LL.D., page 293; Fr. Pustet & Co. Publishers and Booksellers (copyright 1907); Nihil Obstat: Remigius Lafort, S.T.L., Censor; Imprimatur: John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York