September 5 - Friday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Col.1:15-20; Ps.100:1-5; Lk.5:33-39) “New wine should be poured into fresh skins.” “The blood of His cross” is poured forth for us; it becomes the new wine we drink this day, that which makes us new men by its grace. The scribes and Pharisees refuse this new wine, saying, “I find the old wine better,” so they cannot see “the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creatures,” standing before them this day. Do we see Him? Do we hear His teaching? Do we allow His Word and His presence to be poured into us? Do we make ourselves “fresh skins” to receive the wine that is the Lord? Or do…
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