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 happens when we give our life to Jesus, when we begin to fully trust
HIM and leave behind our sinful past? We are introduced to a new life
environment with Jesus where everything is new and spotless.
What is this new life with Jesus all about? This is a new life totally
free from our dark past. Yes we all have our own share of dark past that nobody
knows except us. We must never look back to this dark past otherwise we may be
tempted to mire our lives with the enticement of the devil once again. And this
is very dangerous for it could completely destroy us.
What will make us permanently free from the temptations of the devil? We
must always be connected with Jesus in every second of our lives for this is
the only way that we could prevent the devil from destroying us. Just look
around, temptations disguised as beautiful things are everywhere tempting us.
Let us never allow satan to get hold of us once again, let us remember
that Jesus saved us already. We are now the new wine that has already been poured
into the fresh wineskin no other than Jesus Himself. – Marino J.
Dasmarinas
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