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Daily Scripture, September 5, 2025

Scripture:

Colossians 1:15-20
Luke 5:33-39

Reflection:

For in him all the fullness was pleased to dwell,
and through him to reconcile all things for him.   -Colossians 1:19

Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins.
Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins,
and it will be spilled, and the skins will be ruined.
  -Luke 5:37

It is widely acknowledged that human beings exhibit a resistance to change. There are many aphorisms and proverbs, even going back to ancient Rome and Greece, that speak to this. Even when our present circumstances are not necessarily what we would choose, we often find ourselves unwilling to try something new.

In today’s Gospel, Jesus teaches that he is coming with something brand new. He uses a very vivid metaphor, at least for his disciples and the people of that time to show this. Everyone in his audience would have understood the danger of putting new wine into old wine skins. Old wine skins were stretched out and stiff and new wine was often still in the process of fermentation, of growing, of changing. As Jesus reminds everyone, putting new wine (new teachings) into old wine skins (our previous ways of thinking) can result in a very messy situation.

He’s challenging us to open our old ways of thinking to let His “new wine” fill us and grow within us. But, as he notes at the end of this passage, “…no one who has been drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’” However, we can trust the teachings of Jesus, no matter how strange it may seem to us. For, as St. Paul says, all are reconciled in Jesus. This, “new wine,” with its emphasis on caring for our brothers and sisters, is the path of reconciliation with God the Father, Jesus the Christ, and the Holy Spirit.

My prayer for us today is that we are able to open our hearts, our minds and our souls to allow this new wine to ferment within us and transform the world.

Talib Huff is a retired teacher, a member of the retreat team at Christ the King Passionist Retreat Center in Citrus Heights, California, and a lay member of Holy Cross Provincial Leadership Team. You may contact him at [email protected].

Daily Scripture, October 1, 2010

Memorial of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus Scripture: Job 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5 Luke 10:13-16 Reflection: She was, by all measure of judgment and estimation, a remarkable woman. It was » Continue Reading.

Daily Scripture, September 30, 2010

  Scripture: Job 19:21-27 Luke 10:1-12       Reflection: Poor Job.  Not only is he going through a lot of pain and sorrow.  His friends turn against him.  Job could have used » Continue Reading.

Daily Scripture, September 28, 2010

Scripture: Job 3:1-3, 11-17, 20-23 Luke 9:51-56 Reflection: Have you ever had one of those days when you wish you hadn’t been born?  That is how Job felt in our » Continue Reading.

Daily Scripture, September 27, 2010

Scripture: Job 1:6-22 Luke 9:46-50 Reflection: For the one who is least among all of you is the one who is the greatest I was watching my kids navigate their » Continue Reading.

Daily Scripture, September 26, 2010

Scripture: Amos 6:1a, 4-7 1Timothy 6:11-16 Luke 16:19-31 Reflection: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." As I read the Scripture readings for today, the "Golden » Continue Reading.

Daily Scripture, September 29, 2010

Feast of Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, archangels Scripture: Daniel 7: 9-10, 13-14 John 1: 47-51 Reflection: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, all three faiths speak about angels – messengers of God. » Continue Reading.

Daily Scripture, September 22, 2010

Scripture: Proverbs 30:5-9 Luke 9:1-6 Reflection: "And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing everywhere." Luke 9:2,6   Despite the many sobering and fearful statements » Continue Reading.

Daily Scripture, September 21, 2010

Feast of St. Matthew Scripture:  Ephesians 4:1-7, 11-13 Matthew 9:9-13 Reflection: Accountants and auditors don’t sound like very exciting people.  Nor do tax collectors.  They seem to be the self-effacing » Continue Reading.

Daily Scripture, September 18, 2010

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:35-37, 42-49 Luke 8:4-15 Reflection: "I will walk in the presence of God, in the light of the living. "(Ps. 56:14) The apostle Paul certainly was on » Continue Reading.

Daily Scripture, September 17, 2010

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:12-20 Luke 8:1-3 Reflection: When reading this section of St. Paul’s letter to Timothy, a memory of years gone by when I was working as an assistant » Continue Reading.

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