Name: Fr.James Areechira
Email: areechira@hotmail.com
Date: Monday - 6/Mar/100 - 04:02:31 GMT
Response:
Dear Father,
Your resources and insights are of great help for me to prepare my homilies. Thanks for the good service.
James.

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Name: Fr.James Areechira
Email: aree
Date: Monday - 6/Mar/100 - 03:59:19 GMT
Response:

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Name: Dat Nguyen
Email: dat.nguyen@prolinkservices.com
Date: Monday - 28/Feb/100 - 15:41:31 GMT
Response:
For the longest time, I love this reading about celebrating
while the bridgoom is around. It reminds me of many weddings and
family gatherings, joyous occasions that I have been through, but
I could not make the connection between this celebration and the
talk that follows about new wine, old wine...
Yesterday, I was blessed by the homily of the presiding priest. He
asked why fasting, and why would anyone in the Jewish community fast
at the time, since the Torah calls for fasting only once at Yom Kippur,
the day of atonement for one's sins. He suggests that they had
plenty of reasons for fasting. The country was under Roman grips,
they were waiting for the coming of the Messiah to liberate them and
free them of their miseries.
In this reading, what the Jewish hoped for was realized in Jesus.
They fasted and prayed for the arrival of the Messiah, but he is
here so why should they fast now that he was here? In a sense, Jesus
could not come right out and said, "here I am, the Messiah that you
have been waiting for generations." So he used the analogy of
new wine and old bag to say that this was the new era, and
we had to act accordingly.
The lesson we learn here is that salvation has come, and we must
bring the Good News to each new generations that grow up. We must
adapt and evangelize in the language that people of this day can
understand.
On the personal level, we must let go of old attachements as our
relationship with Christ deepens.

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Name: lou giacona
Email: lgiacona@cfl.rr.com
Date: Sunday - 27/Feb/100 - 15:01:18 GMT
Response:
I was in spiritual direction yesterday when this subject of letting go
of the old and inviting the new came up. I still hear His voice telling me
that it's coming time for me to do the same in today's readings. Please pray
for me that He will continue to strengthen me and uphold me while I die
a little more to self. Thank you, lou giacona.

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