Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- Accepting The New Wine

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 7.8.59 | Bishop Robert Barron

[MurphsLaw]

Matthew 9:14-17

Friends, in today’s Gospel,
Jesus gives us the parable of new wine
and old and new wineskins.

The new wine is the Good News,
the Incarnation,
the reconciliation of the divine and the human.
But this powerful elixir cannot be contained in the receptacles of the old consciousness.
As long as the ego reigns in the soul,
the new wine will prove too strange, too foreign, too threatening
—and it will be accordingly rejected.

Before the heady wine of the Gospel can be assimilated,
there must be a scouring out of the spirit,
a transformation of awareness and attitude, a metanoia.
We should examine the stories of Jesus’ confrontations with the demons from this perspective.
The demon within us realizes that he is the old wine skin that will be shredded by the inpouring of the new wine,
and he consequently reacts in horror.
It is a helpful spiritual exercise to isolate those passages from the New Testament,
those sayings and actions of Jesus, which make us most uncomfortable,
since they will most effectively indicate how our souls have to be transfigured.
They, much more than the passages we instinctively love,
will show the path that metanoia must follow.

[MurphsLaw]

+++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."+++

[MurphsLaw]

Why, and how,
The Fullness of Truth
eludes those who cling
to the consciousness of thd Old Law,
the Old Wine Skin that is no longer sufficient.

[Srednik]

So if the RC’s respect this passage, then why have they “resurrected” priesthood and all manner of nicolaitan paganisms (putting the new wine of the gospel into tired old wineskins of formalistic shamanism)?

[MurphsLaw]

Because Christ hired Apostles.
And with The Spirit, were given powers to build (future tense) his Church
that Christ promised us.

[rightazrain]

I have always believed that the old wine skins refer to the Old Testament. The new wine skins represent the New Testament. We are not under Law but under Grace.

[ebb tide]

Boobie Barron is just another of Bergoglio's puppets:

Here he is boasting about Bergoglio's Sin-Nod, and bragging how he has been chosen to participate with his fellow Americans: Cupich, McElroy, Gregory, James Martin, S.J., and O'Malley:

And he considers it to be a privilege to be in their company and partake in Bergoglio's attack on the Church?

[ebb tide]

Because Christ hired Apostles.

Jesus Christ "hired" no one. Nor did He fire anyone.

Where do you come up this stuff?

[MurphsLaw]

Peter was once overheard saying...
MY boss... is a Jewish Carpenter;

“For the kingdom of heaven
is like a householder who went out early in the morning
to hire laborers for his vineyard".

Sing it

In the Highways, in the hedges
In the Highways, in the hedges
In the Highways, in the hedges
I'll be somewhere working for my Lord

I'll be somewhere working
I'll be somewhere working
I'll be somewhere working
I'll be somewhere working for my Lord

I'll be somewhere working
I'll be somewhere working
I'll be somewhere working
I'll be somewhere working for my Lord

If he calls me, I will answer
If he calls me, I will answer
If he calls me, I will answer
I'll be somewhere working for my Lord

I'll be somewhere working
I'll be somewhere working
I'll be somewhere working
I'll be somewhere working for my Lord

I'll be somewhere working
I'll be somewhere working
I'll be somewhere working
I'll be somewhere working for my Lord