July 2,, 2005
New Wineskins Mt 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."
New wineskins, new ways are begun by Jesus. The old laws of the Pharisees are not the same now. A new wine needs a new wineskin. The Way of the disciples of Jesus is a new wine, a new sacrament, a new sharing in God.
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."
New wineskins, new ways are begun by Jesus. The old laws of the Pharisees are not the same now. A new wine needs a new wineskin. The Way of the disciples of Jesus is a new wine, a new sacrament, a new sharing in God.
posted by Joan Morris at 7:15 AM
<< Home