New Wine, New Skin!

Hello! and good Thursday to all of us; and, it's just 112 days to go before Christmas, GUYS.  Our today's first-thing-first:

 

"JESUS also told the Pharisees 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'." - Luke 5:36-39

 

(What is the new wine?  It is of course the Gospel, and the enthusiasm because of the Holy Spirit that leads the disciples to every kind of madness to manifest the love of the FATHER and the freedom that they have acquired.  In order to understand this, let us read the Acts of the Apostles and the lives of the saints, who have marked Church history.

 

Old skins:  Gospel does not fit into the molds of religion and likewise does not enter into those persons who hold onto them at all costs.  In the Gospel of Mark, he wants us to catch Gospel's novelty.  We have just seen JESUS welcoming sinners, now we wonder that HE doesn't come like religious groups with prayers and fasting.)