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"As long as I am content to know that He is infinitely greater than I, and that I cannot know Him unless He shows Himself to me, I will have
Peace, and He will be near me and in me, and I will rest in Him."
- Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude -
(Trust in God . . . rest in the confidence of God's love and care for
you.)
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Heb 5:1-10; Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4
Mk 2:18-22 The disciples of John and of the Pharisees were accustomed to fast.
People came to Jesus and objected,
"Why do the disciples of John and the
disciples of the Pharisees fast,
but your disciples do not fast?"
Jesus answered them,
"Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?
As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.
But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them,
and then they will fast on that day.
No one sews a piece
of unshrunken cloth on an old cloak.
If he does, its fullness pulls away,
the new from the old, and the tear gets worse.
Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins.
Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins,
and both the wine and the skins are ruined.
Rather, new wine is poured into fresh
wineskins."
Praying the Daily Gospels: A Guide to Meditation, by Philip St. Romain, 2018 (3rd ed.) Mark 2: 18-22 (On new wine and new cloth)
Jealousy prompts the Pharisees and the disciples of John to try to find fault with Jesus' spirituality. Rather than return the criticism, as he could have done, Jesus invites them to be open to a new way of doing God's will. * Gibran said that Jesus stood before the world as
the first man stood on the first day. Are you open to seeing the world in its daily newness? * Resolve to stop many times today to appreciate creation and the people around you. Give thanks to God for these gifts. Begin now.
Treatise on the Love of God, by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) ____________ BOOK III: OF THE PROGRESS AND PERFECTION OF LOVE Chapter 6: That we cannot attain perfect union with God in this mortal life
This perfect conjunction then of the soul with God, shall only be in heaven, where as the Apocalypse says, the Lamb's marriage feast shall be made. In this mortal life the soul is truly espoused and betrothed to the
immaculate Lamb, but not as yet married to him: the troth is plighted, and promise given, but the execution of the marriage is deferred: so that we have always time, though never reason, to withdraw from it; our faithful spouse never abandons us unless we oblige him to it by our disloyalty and unfaithfulness. But in heaven the marriage of this divine union being celebrated, the bond which ties our hearts to their sovereign principle shall be eternally
indissoluble.
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