Everyone who knows or comes to know us, must simply see us at servants of Christ Jesus our Lord. For our Lord sees into our hearts and He decides if are just, for salvation comes from Him alone. Let us therefore glorify Him by our service of brethren, humility and love.
Let us be docile to the promptings of the Holy Spirit who makes all things new. Yes indeed there are everlasting truths, but allowing Him to lead us will bring us and everyone we lead closer and deeper. Let us not rely simply on our own wisdom or continue to hold on only to tried and tested ways. For the Holy Spirit can lead us to new horizons and greater peaks.
Come Holy Spirit have Your way. Amen
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First reading
1 Corinthians 4:1-5 ·
The Lord alone is our judge
People must think of us as Christ’s servants, stewards entrusted with the mysteries of God. What is expected of stewards is that each one should be found worthy of his trust. Not that it makes the slightest difference to me whether you, or indeed any human tribunal, find me worthy or not. I will not even pass judgement on myself. True, my conscience does not reproach me at all, but that does not prove that I am acquitted: the Lord alone is my judge. There must be no passing of premature judgement. Leave that until the Lord comes; he will light up all that is hidden in the dark and reveal the secret intentions of men’s hearts. Then will be the time for each one to have whatever praise he deserves, from God.
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Gospel
Luke 5:33-39
When the bridegroom is taken from them, then they will fast
The Pharisees and the scribes said to Jesus, ‘John’s disciples are always fasting and saying prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees too, but yours go on eating and drinking.’ Jesus replied, ‘Surely you cannot make the bridegroom’s attendants fast while the bridegroom is still with them? But the time will come, the time for the bridegroom to be taken away from them; that will be the time when they will fast.’
He also told them this parable, ‘No one tears a piece from a new cloak to put it on an old cloak; if he does, not only will he have torn the new one, but the piece taken from the new will not match the old.
‘And nobody puts new wine into old skins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and then run out, and the skins will be lost. No; new wine must be put into fresh skins. And nobody who has been drinking old wine wants new. “The old is good” he says.’
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