"Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we,
and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said
to them, “The wedding-guest 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 the they will fast.” No one sews a piece of shrunk 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 not fresh wineskins,
and so both are preserved."
In
his homily today, Father Patrick Fitzpatrick advised that the message of the
gospel is to look at the past but not to live in the past. We do not need to
patch up the past like putting a new cloak into old wineskins. Father Patrick
wants us to meditate on the serenity prayer “God grant me the serenity to
accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the
wisdom to know the difference.”
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