Monday 20th January

Mark 2:18–22

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting;
and people came and said to Jesus, "Why do John's disciples and the
disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?" Jesus
said to them, "The wedding guests cannot fast while the bridegroom is with
them, can they? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot
fast. The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then
they will fast on that day. "No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an
old cloak; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a
worse tear is made. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the
wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but one
puts new wine into fresh wineskins."

 

Reflection

Am I more likely to cling to a set of standards I
know well or to join a celebration I don’t quite yet understand?

 

Can I trust in the depths of God’s creative Spirit
who is making all things new?