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GOSPEL POWER l JULY 2, 2022 - SATURDAY
GOSPEL POWER l JULY 2, 2022
Saturday of 13th Week in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Mt 9:14-17
14The disciples of John came to Jesus, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?” 15And Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. 16No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak, for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made. 17Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.”
Jesus begins his ministry with a call to metanoia, which literally means “to go beyond the mind” — to move out of the old mindset, with its comfortable but wornout habits of thought and patterns of belief that shape behavior. For divine revelation has reached its climax, and God is reaching out to the world in a totally new and unexpected way, not merely through another prophet or messenger, but through his own Son. God is uniting himself with humanity in a new love-covenant, and his Son is the Bridegroom of this new union. This good news calls for celebration, in which fasting is inappropriate. But because the new union will be sealed with the sacrificial death of the Bridegroom, fasting will not be totally irrelevant. Jesus, the Bridegroom, becomes the definitive determinant of whether to fast or to feast.
Lord Jesus, grant us the grace not to shun the change that metanoia demands, so that our lives may be new wineskins for the new wine of the Kingdom. Amen.
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GOSPEL POWER l JULY 2, 2022
Saturday of 13th Week in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Mt 9:14-17
14The disciples of John came to Jesus, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?” 15And Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. 16No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak, for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made. 17Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.”
Jesus begins his ministry with a call to metanoia, which literally means “to go beyond the mind” — to move out of the old mindset, with its comfortable but wornout habits of thought and patterns of belief that shape behavior. For divine revelation has reached its climax, and God is reaching out to the world in a totally new and unexpected way, not merely through another prophet or messenger, but through his own Son. God is uniting himself with humanity in a new love-covenant, and his Son is the Bridegroom of this new union. This good news calls for celebration, in which fasting is inappropriate. But because the new union will be sealed with the sacrificial death of the Bridegroom, fasting will not be totally irrelevant. Jesus, the Bridegroom, becomes the definitive determinant of whether to fast or to feast.
Lord Jesus, grant us the grace not to shun the change that metanoia demands, so that our lives may be new wineskins for the new wine of the Kingdom. Amen.