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The old and the new
Friday, September 4, 2009
22nd Week in Ordinary Time
1st Reading: Col 1:15–20
Gospel: Lk 5:33–39
(…) Jesus also told them this parable, “No one tears a piece from a new coat to put it on an old one; otherwise the new will be torn and the piece taken from the new will not match the old. No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed as well. But new wine must be put into fresh skins. Yet no one who has tasted old wine is eager to get new wine, but says: The old is good.”
D@iGITAL EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life Experience)
Embracing the new life in the spirit demands a daily decision to renounce all compromises with the old life. Compromising with the old way is like patching a piece from a new coat to an old one.
An academic debate was held in the seminary on having girlfriends. The negative side was as emphatic as the affirmative side. Those who proposed that seminarians should be allowed to have girlfriends reasoned out that it is indispensable to attaining a healthy attitude towards women.
But those who opposed the idea reminded everyone that having a girlfriend for purposes of seminary exposure is unfair to the girl who is being ‘used’ for another agenda. Seminary life is for those who intend to become priests as having girlfriends is for those who intend to marry. Mixing both is like tearing a piece from a new coat to put it on an old one. This will only tear the new coat. Moreover, the piece taken from it will not match the old coat.
Just as in the case of patching an old coat with a new one the new goes to waste, so one’s life in the Spirit becomes repugnant to the Lord who will vomit those who are neither hot nor cold. He dislikes the lip service rendered by the hypocrites and takes pleasure in the offering of a sincere worshipper such as the offering of a few cents dropped by a widow into the Temple treasury box.
Just as in the case of patching an old coat with a new one the old material won’t hold the patch for long and the mismatch will render the coat undesirable, so one’s failure to abandon the old sinful way weakens the determination to commit to the new life in the Spirit. A concrete example is one who begins to attend life in the Spirit seminar even as he continues to indulge in his vices, thinking that his involvement in the Charismatic will conquer his old ways. The other way around always happens. His continual indulgence in vices will take away from him the taste for anything spiritual.—Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM-HRM. Email: [email protected]. Text: 09196744507 please state sender’s name and location.
Father Dan de los Angeles, BANDERA, September 4, 2009
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