Gospel: Luke 5:33-39
The
scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “The disciples of John the Baptist fast
often and offer prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same; but
yours eat and drink.” Jesus answered them, “Can you make the wedding guests
fast while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, and when the
bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.” And he
also told them a parable. “No one tears a piece from a new cloak to patch an
old one. Otherwise, he will tear the new and the piece from it will not match
the old cloak. Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise,
the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will
be ruined. Rather, new wine must be poured into fresh wineskins. And no one who
has been drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’”
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Reflection:
A lady
was giving her personal testimony on how Jesus made a big impact on her life
and how Jesus filled her life with joy and contentment. She said further that
now that Jesus is in her heart. She now will always ask Jesus to take over her
sadness and other trials.
Whether
we admit or not sadness and other lonesome emotions will once in a while visit us. This is normal for we are all beings with emotions. However if we have
Jesus, we have nothing to worry even if these lonesome feelings will come to
us.
We would
know how to handle it for the simple reason that we already have Jesus in our
lives. We have nothing to worry about anything that may come to us. Thus, we
continue to move ahead with hope because Jesus is by our side.
Assuring
us that no human affliction and emotion no matter how severe could bring us
down anymore. Not even the saddest moment in our lives for we have already been
renewed and poured into the fresh wineskin which is Jesus. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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