"Through your goodness we have this wine to offer, fruit of the vine and work of human hands. It will become our spiritual drink."-Eucharistic Liturgy

"I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing." --John 15:5

The wine we offer at the Mass is indeed fruit of the vine... in so many ways! In His creation, the grapes of the vines are made into wine, and through His goodness we have wine to offer that His Son might become present to us. But we also, as the branches and fruit of Him, the vine, are made into new wine through Christ's Resurrection, the "good wine" of the Wedding of Cana, saved for last. Through the fully God and fully human hands of Christ, we attain this living water, our spiritual drink!