8 Jul 2023
A Family Wedding
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For 8 July 2023, Saturday of week 13 in Ordinary Time, based on Matthew 9:14-17
Then the disciples of John came to Jesus, saying, ‘Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?’ And Jesus said to them, ‘The wedding-guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak, for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.’
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.
09 July 2023 @ 4:05 am
Thank you so much Deborah for your insights and sharing on this gospel of the Family of God. I especially appreciated how you gave an example from your own experiences of attending weddings and inviting new ways of looking at life afresh and combining the old and new afresh with Jesus. For it is with Jesus and his grace we can accept the old and integrate it into the new. He repairs and cares for us. At my recent 60th Jubilee of vowed Dominican life celebration, I came to see it all coming together as never before. I could drop the cloak and be ready to be stretched anew.
God bless your continued preaching!
Love and prayer,
Sr. Brigid