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GOSPEL POWER l SEPTEMBER 3, 2021 l FRIDAY
GOSPEL POWER l SEPTEMBER 3, 2021 l FRIDAY
22nd Week in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Lk 5:33-39
33The Pharisees and scribes said to Jesus, “John’s disciples, like the disciples of the Pharisees, frequently fast and pray, but your disciples eat and drink.” 34Jesus said to them, “You cannot make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you? 35The days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.” 36He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and sews it on an old garment; otherwise the new will be torn, and the piece from the new will not match the old. 37And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. 38But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 39And no one after drinking old wine desires new wine, but says, ‘The old is good.’”
Fasting served various purposes in Israel’s life. One important motive for fasting was to express hope for the dawning of the messianic age. The coming of Jesus fulfills this hope. For this reason, Jesus invokes the familiar messianic image of the banquet (cf. Is 25:6; 55:1-2) to answer the disapproving observation regarding his disciples’ omission of fasting. The scribes and Pharisees, as experts in the Scripture, ought to know the implication of Jesus’ answer. It is a claim that, in his person, God is being revealed in a new and totally unexpected way. The simple ones, like his disciples, welcome and celebrate this newness. But those who enjoy status and privileges in the old system, like the scribes and Pharisees, resist the change necessitated by the new order. Lord Jesus, transform our lives into new wineskins, ready to receive the newness of the Kingdom. Amen.
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GOSPEL POWER l SEPTEMBER 3, 2021 l FRIDAY
22nd Week in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Lk 5:33-39
33The Pharisees and scribes said to Jesus, “John’s disciples, like the disciples of the Pharisees, frequently fast and pray, but your disciples eat and drink.” 34Jesus said to them, “You cannot make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you? 35The days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.” 36He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and sews it on an old garment; otherwise the new will be torn, and the piece from the new will not match the old. 37And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. 38But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 39And no one after drinking old wine desires new wine, but says, ‘The old is good.’”
Fasting served various purposes in Israel’s life. One important motive for fasting was to express hope for the dawning of the messianic age. The coming of Jesus fulfills this hope. For this reason, Jesus invokes the familiar messianic image of the banquet (cf. Is 25:6; 55:1-2) to answer the disapproving observation regarding his disciples’ omission of fasting. The scribes and Pharisees, as experts in the Scripture, ought to know the implication of Jesus’ answer. It is a claim that, in his person, God is being revealed in a new and totally unexpected way. The simple ones, like his disciples, welcome and celebrate this newness. But those who enjoy status and privileges in the old system, like the scribes and Pharisees, resist the change necessitated by the new order. Lord Jesus, transform our lives into new wineskins, ready to receive the newness of the Kingdom. Amen.