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 can 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 makes us sin.
We also throw our fears of what tomorrow may bring us for the simple
reason that we are already with Jesus. With Jesus the fear of the unknown is
permanently banished from our system, what would remain is our faith in our
Lord and savior. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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