Gospel: Matthew
9:14-17
The
disciples of John approached Jesus and said, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast
much, but your disciples do not fast?” Jesus answered them, “Can the wedding
guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when
the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. No one patches
an old cloak with a piece of unshrunken cloth, for its fullness pulls away from
the cloak and the tear gets worse. People do not put new wine into old
wineskins. Otherwise the skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are
ruined. Rather, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are
preserved.”
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Reflection:
What will
make us complete? Its Jesus he only can complete us, the things of this world
no matter how enormous will never complete us. Our treasures and power will
never complete us and if these are not handled properly this may even destroy
us. It will never fill our longing for God because
our love for the things of this world only brings us farther from God.
John’s
disciples asked Jesus: "Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but your
disciples do not fast?" Jesus meaningfully answered them: "Can the
wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The wedding guests
are the followers of Jesus and the bridegroom is no other than Jesus himself.
Just like
in a wedding banquet wherein the guests are forever joyous the same also with
us. We become renewed, happy and complete for we are already with Jesus. We
permanently leave behind every aspect of our old sinful selves and everything
that will make as sin.
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