Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Mark 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.”
Fasting
1. Disciples. There are people who love to compare other people, situations, things, and you can also fall into that as well, always comparing yourself, measuring your life with the lives of others. Let me give you a piece of advice: “each person is unique and unrepeatable”. Therefore, stop measuring yourself because your life is unique and what you’ve been through in life happened only to you. People will always measure you and compare you, they’ll say that you are better or worse than so and so, but that’s not the problem, the problem is when you start comparing yourself with others believing that to be better or at least the same as them, you have to do the same thing as they do. Some people will always try to clone you or others, a father who tries to make his son the same as him, or a mother who wants her daughter to be the way she wants her to be, a husband who wants his wife to be the same as his friend’s wife or the other way around. The problem isn’t how you are measured and compared, but that your life should dwell on that, measuring and comparing yourself and others all the time.
2. Is with them. As the week begins, try to work more on your life and see the things you have around you. We always look at what we lack or what’s defective, but very few times do we see the richness of what we have in our lives. Something that we must gradually learn is to live each moment fully. It’s necessary to stop living with nostalgia or based on future visions, you must live the present.
3. Piece of cloth. We should learn to live each moment as it comes. Stop bringing the past into your life today, and stop regretting things all the time saying “I should have or could have…” In life things happen for a reason and for a purpose. The point is to try to understand why something happens to us and to decide how to deal with it.
Don’t forget that something good is on the way!
God bless you and be with you in the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
