MY daily reflection and prayer:
Friday, September 4, 2015
Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time
Dear my friends,
Here is the Gospel for us today according to Luke 5:33-39
And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.” And Jesus said to them, “Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.” He told them a parable also: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it upon an old garment; if he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine desires new; for he says, `The old is good.'”
This is the Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.
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FOLLOWING Jesus as his disciple is a vocation to experience a whole new joy of relationship. But there also comes a time when we must bear the cross of purification. There is a time for rejoicing in his presence and celebrating his goodness. But there is a time also for fasting and for mourning over sin.
We are also invited to renew our lives everyday. In the Gospel today, Jesus Christ warns us about the problem of the closed mind that refuses to learn new things. Like new wine needs new skin, it is our lives in Christ.
In the Perpetual Adoration of the Eucharist we worship Jesus Christ who gives us wisdom so we can make the best use of the new life in him. He wants our minds and hearts to be like the new wine skins, open and ready to receive the new wine of the Holy Spirit.
Let’s pray: Lord Jesus Christ, fill us with your Holy Spirit, that we may grow in the knowledge of your great love and truth. May we always find joy in knowing, loving, and serving you and others now and forever. Amen.
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