We sometimes come across certain faithful who are stuck with doing things according to a certain previous parish priest's way of the past. Even though such ways of doing things are already outdated or no longer relevant in today's context, such faithful would stick to their belief that such ways are the only ways to get things done. But the reality is that things change, and what worked in the past would no longer work in the present or even in the future. For example, in the past, people, especially adults, were taught catechism on a one to one basis, before baptism is given; nowadays, people are taught through RCIA before they are considered for baptism.
In today's Gospel, Jesus
speaks about not putting a new cloak to patch an old cloak, and using
only new skins to store new wine. Jesus is telling us to move on from
old ways to new and better ways of being disciples and of growing in relationship with God. He
is telling us not to be like the scribes and Pharisees, who focused in only meticulously observing the
law, but to refocus in the law of
loving God and loving neighbour, which was the whole idea and purpose of
the law in the first place. Jesus was
showing us a new and better way of living, by
living the way of love.
Sometimes we too could be
guilty in following the ways of the scribes and the Pharisees, or the ways of certain faithful who are stuck in old ways. May we be humble and willing to
change, so that we would be free to listen to God's voice again, and
grow deeper in relationship with Him, while using new ways and methods to do His will and glorify Him..
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