Friday of week 22 in Ordinary Time
First Friday: Let us entrust ourselves to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Gospel – Luke 5:33-39
“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”. The new life with Jesus brought to us is something completely new. The life with Christ is a new life. But what we often do is to tear off from this new life with Christ, pieces which would look nice in our old way of life. This is not what the Christian life is! It’s not about embellishing our old ways of life with some pieces from the new life with Christ. The completely new life is challenging and also demanding. So, it’s an easy way out to tear pieces from the new to make the old look beautiful. This will not work in both ways. The complete new is not there and the old loses its integrity. So, we end up completely lost. So, following Jesus Christ, let’s go for completely renewing ourselves. Christ life is not about cosmetic changes but radical changes. Let’s reflect: Is my Christian life is only just about some superficial changes or a completely new life?
Don Giorgio