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Are we mournful Catholics? Do we not instead rejoice at every Sunday eucharistic celebration? Giving our God thanks and praise!? Our Lord and saviour conquered death so that we may have new life in a Him. Are we not to celebrate our salvation? Our redemption?

We need to be transformed at every celebration by the Word and the reception of Jesus into our very being. We cannot hold on to our old sinful lives or our inertia to grow in our faith. God speaks to us everyday, in every Eucharistic celebration. Are we listening? Are we growing? Are we transformed?

GOSPEL
Matthew 9:14–17

The disciples of John approached Jesus and said, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but your disciples do not fast?” Jesus answered them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. No one patches an old cloak with a piece of unshrunken cloth, for its fullness pulls away from the cloak and the tear gets worse. People do not put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined. Rather, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”

Are we still waiting for the day or the right time to change? To turn away from a sinful past? Do we feel trapped in that this current way of life is all we know? Have we given up all hope? All hope for change?

Jesus is calling us today……”Come follow me.” He does not place any conditions on us, in fact He offers us His embrace of unconditional love. All we need to do is to make up our mind and respond to His call, “Follow me..”

There is no other God but our One loving and ever living God. Who will sit and eat with us even though we are poor sinners. Merciful is He that He washes us clean with His own precious blood and nourishes us with His divine flesh. What did we do to deserve such love? Nothing…..

What can we ever do to repay You for your great kindness and enormous love for us sweet Jesus? Yet all You ask is that we love God our loving Father with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our strength and with all our mind  and that we love one another as You have loved us. To extend the mercy we receive to all that we meet. Amen

GOSPEL
Matthew 9:9–13

9 As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.
10 And as he sat at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples. 11 And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 12 But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 13 Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”