Gospel:
Matthew 9:14-15
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.”
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Reflection:
Have you
tried abstaining from eating food?
The
question about fasting is most relevant to all of us during this season of
Lent. Because it’s here where the church actively reminds us about it. And the gospel for today is a reiteration of
this reminder.
It may
seem that Jesus is defending His disciples for not fasting. But in hindsight,
they were actually fasting; not the literal fasting per see to appease the
discriminating eyes of John's disciples.
The disciples of Jesus were fasting from self-righteousness, from doing
wrong, from judging others as good for nothing.
This is
the deeper form of fasting that Jesus wants from us all and this should not be
done only during the season of Lent. Are you capable from permanently fasting
from your bloated ego, from doing wrong and from unjustly judging others?
These are
the deeper form of fasting that Jesus appreciates for what good it is if we
fast from food when we don’t change our undesirable attitudes? Say for example
we fast yet we continue to be arrogant, to be judgmental, to be unforgiving, to
be uncaring and so forth. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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