Per huius aquæ et vini mystérium eius efficiámur divinitátis consórtes, qui humanitátis nostræ fíeri dignátus est párticeps.

By the mystery of this water and wine (2 Macc. 15:39; John 19:34) may we come to share in the divinity of Christ (Rom. 5:2; 2 Pet. 1:4) who humbled himself to share in our humanity (Phil. 2).

The drops of water added to the wine no longer exist of themselves but are caught up and incorporated into the wine. The water does not merely represent abstract humanity, but each of us concretely as humans: “we are the drop of water united with the wine.” (Calvary and the Mass) This is an analogy for life in Christ: what Jesus has by nature (His divine Sonship), we receive by grace (divine adoption). We “are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another” (2 Cor. 3:18), but this transformation will not be complete until we enter Heaven.