Gospel
Mark 2:18-22
'Why do your disciples not fast?'
One day when John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, some people came to Jesus and said to him, ‘Why is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not?’ Jesus replied, ‘Surely the bridegroom’s attendants would never think of fasting while the bridegroom is still with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they could not think of fasting. But the time will come for the bridegroom to be taken away from them, and then, on that day, they will fast. No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old cloak; if he does, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and the tear gets worse. And nobody puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins too. No! New wine, fresh skins!’
Reflection
John 's disciples only know to enter the kingdom of God is repentance. Christ on the other hand represent the new way whereby to enter the kingdom of God is through him. There is a time for joy and there is a time for mourning. Today we celebrate Christmas as a time for joy but good Friday a time of fasting and mourning. Do you believe salvation is by going through Christ?
Let us pray
Lord Jesus may we always follow you for you are the truth and the life.
Amen
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