Friday, 6th September

Luke 5:33–39

Then the Pharisees and the scribes said to
Jesus, "John's disciples, like the disciples of the Pharisees, frequently
fast and pray, but your disciples eat and drink. Jesus said to them, "You
cannot make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you? The
days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they
will fast in those days." He 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. And 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. But new wine must be put
into fresh wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine desires new wine, but
says, 'The old is good.'

Reflection

Do I always compare with others? Why?

How does Jesus invite me to be made anew
instead of being a patchwork of mismatched patterns and practices? How do I
respond?