Praised be Jesus and Mary. Our Lord tells us in today's Gospel no one puts new wine
into old wine skins. Not only will the wine and the skins both be lost, but
anyone who has been drinking the old wine never wants the new. The old is good,
he says. The point that our Lord is making is that
he's starting something entirely new.
It's coming out of Judaism, but you could not put Christianity into the old
wine skins of Judaism because anyone who was living their Jewish faith at that
time would have been able to look at what our Lord was doing.
And
and
say that, you know, I like the old better. That's the way of all of us are.
We know what we have and it's what we're familiar with. And even though the new
thing may be much better, we like our old way because we're just plain used to it.
So,
when our Lord starts something new, he's telling us that he's has put new wine
into new wine skins. And that doesn't mean that the old was not good. It simply
means that the new is something different.
Amen.
As we know.
You know we're brought into the very person of Christ.
The very holiness.
Of Christ, the day of our baptism.
But now we have to go beyond simply being.
Members of Christ in a generic way.
be.
St. Paul tells us that we have to be transformed into the very holiness of God himself.
The goal of our lives is to be transformed into Jesus Christ.
And as St. Paul says, it's no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
In order for us to be able to live the life of Christ, we must look at our old way of living,
our sinful and selfish way of living, and reject that.
Even though that may be what we're accustomed to,
even though we're not used to it,
even though we're not used to it,
even though we like it and unfortunately are attached to it,
we must let it go so that the new way of life,
the new one, which is truly who we are,
as we live, as we live, as we live,
as members of Jesus, will be able to shine through us.
And this is never going to take place through our own efforts alone.
And we must allow Our Lady to transform us into the very holiness of Christ.
I assure you in this case that the new will be better than the old.
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