Just like our journey toward Christ and eternal salvation. Across the globe, nations struggle to find ways to live peacefully with neighbors who are different in color or worship God in a different way.īut it’s something that will always be a struggle. Although we still struggle with this today in America, we are not alone. Here in the United States, today is also a day to honor, remember and reflect on the life of Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist preacher who became an iconic leader of a movement toward racial reconciliation and respect.ĭuring his time, King’s message was hard, if not impossible, to accept by those who were still enslaved by the old ways of thinking, the old wine skins. If we are afraid to speak up for justice and the right to life, then we are TOO AFRAID. If we can’t fit even 20 minutes of meditation into our day, then we are TOO BUSY. If we are too busy to pray each day … we are TOO BUSY. #Parable of the patch and wine skins in scripture skin#We must not be afraid to take on a new skin – a new wine skin, fit to accept the new wine offered by our Lord and Savior. But those changes cannot fit into our lives as they currently are. I’m thinking of the person who complains: “I would pray every day if I had time.”Ĭhrist and his Catholic Church are calling us now – TODAY – to change our lives and embrace what some say are radical things – daily prayer, respect for life, embracing the lowly, befriending the outcast. How many of us today are still caught up in the “old way” structure of our own lives … a structure that is not flexible, not able to welcome Jesus into our lives on a daily basis. In our readings today, it’s pretty clear that many did not grasp this new way.īut let’s not judge. Stuck in the framework of a society that demanded this and that – dozens upon dozens of rules handed down by Moses – Jesus came along and taught a new message, a simple message, a new way to connect with God. Our Lord’s teachings were radical back in the day. It’s a childish exercise … but one we learn over and over again as followers of Jesus. He tries and tries, but the block just won’t go into the round circle. Rather, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins.” Not only his academic study, but also his small-town background and experiences in establishing the inter-racial Koinonia Farm in the 1940s shaped his ability to hear the parables in the Cotton Patch. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are ruined. Hearing Parables in the Patch 12 Clarence Jordan was an unusually able interpreter of Jesus’ parables. “Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins.
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