17 Jan 2022
Second Thoughts
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For 17 January 2022, Monday of week 2 in Ordinary Time, based on Mark 2:18-22
Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and people came and said to him, ‘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.’
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
17 January 2022 @ 3:23 pm
I have no second thoughts at all about the excellence of this preaching ! I especially appreciate your connecting our time with the word of Scripture. Thank you, Marianne
18 January 2022 @ 1:02 am
I agree 100% with Beth! Well done, Marianne! Thank you!
18 January 2022 @ 2:59 am
…love your inclusion of Pope Francis’ words “hope†and “bridges. thanks, Marianne
18 January 2022 @ 3:39 am
… wish I could forward this to some “churchmen” I know!