Gospel Mark
2:18-22
The
disciples of John and of the Pharisees were accustomed to fast. People came to
Jesus and objected, “Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the
Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast? Jesus answered them, “Can the
wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the
bridegroom with them they cannot fast. But the days will come when the
bridegroom is taken away from them and then they will fast on that day. No one
sews a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old cloak. If he does, its fullness
pulls away, the new from the old, and the tear gets worse. Likewise, no one
pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins,
and both the wine and the skins are ruined. Rather, new wine is poured into
fresh wineskins.”
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Reflection:
What is
wineskin? Wineskin is a dried goat or sheep’s skin used as a container for wine
this is perhaps the equivalent of wine bottle or wine drum today. What is the
relevance of the new wineskin which represents Jesus?
By our
sinfulness we become the old wine that is not fit to be poured into the new wineskin.
Yet if we desire to be poured into the new wineskin we have to decide to leave
behind our old sinful lives.
Thus we become
new wine that is very much appropriate for the new wineskin. And the moment we
are poured into this new wineskin we become secure in other words the new
wineskin which is Jesus Himself becomes our security blanket.
Jesus is
always offering Himself to us so that we could have a secure life in this
world. What He only asks from us is to leave behind our sinfulness and that’s
it, Jesus now becomes our security blanket.
Has sin
done you any good? No it did no good to you and it will never do good to you! You
therefore have to leave it behind so that you could journey in this world hand
in hand with your new wineskin and your security blanket which is none other
than Jesus. - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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