Luke 5:36-39
He also told them this parable, ‘No one tears a piece from a new cloak to put it on an old cloak; if he does, not only will he have torn the new one, but the piece taken from the new will not match the old.
‘And nobody puts new wine into old skins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and then run out, and the skins will be lost. No; new wine must be put into fresh skins. And nobody who has been drinking old wine wants new. “The old is good” he says.’
Homily:
We dismiss the old and reject the new.
The old holds the secrets of our species. Our daily task is to unravel the secrets. To unravel the secrets we need understanding, because applying the new to the old will only lead to high strain.
The new helps to refresh our species. Our daily task is refresh our being. To refresh, we need to open up our vulnerabilities, because holding on to the old while embracing the new will only lead to high strain.
The old and the new are important, but Jesus points us in the way of priority when He says, “The old is good”.