Reading 1, 1 Cor 4:1-5

¹ People should think of us as Christ's servants, stewards entrusted with the mysteries of God.

² In such a matter, what is expected of stewards is that each one should be found trustworthy.

³ It is of no importance to me how you or any other human court may judge me: I will not even be the judge of my own self.

⁴ It is true that my conscience does not reproach me, but that is not enough to justify me: it is the Lord who is my judge.

⁵ For that reason, do not judge anything before the due time, until the Lord comes; he will bring to light everything that is hidden in darkness and reveal the designs of all hearts. Then everyone will receive from God the appropriate commendation.

Gospel, Lk 5:33-39

³³ They then said to him, 'John's disciples are always fasting and saying prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees, too, but yours go on eating and drinking.'

³⁴ Jesus replied, 'Surely you cannot make the bridegroom's attendants fast while the bridegroom is still with them?

³⁵ But the time will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them; then, in those days, they will fast.'

³⁶ He also told them a parable, 'No one tears a piece from a new cloak to put it on an old cloak; otherwise, not only will the new one be torn, but the piece taken from the new will not match the old.

³⁷ 'And nobody puts new wine in old wineskins; otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins and run to waste, and the skins will be ruined.

³⁸ No; new wine must be put in fresh skins.

³⁹ And nobody who has been drinking old wine wants new. "The old is good," he says.'

September 2010

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