“Can the wedding guests be in mourning while the groom is with them?” (Matthew 9:14-17)
Biblical reflections by Mauro Leonardi*, priest and writer
To believe in Jesus and live his life, we must encounter his humanity. His body, his blood. His heart exposed. His look. The joy of certainty that comes from living with the faith that He is Emmanuel. The God with us.
From the Gospel according to Matthew 9:14-17
At that time, John's disciples approached Jesus and said to him: "Why, while we and the Pharisees fast, your disciples do not fast?". And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them and then they will fast. No one puts a piece of rough cloth on an old dress, because the patch tears the dress and makes a worse tear. Nor do you put new wine into old wineskins, otherwise the wineskins break and the wine spills and the wineskins are lost. But new wine is poured into new wineskins, and thus both are preserved."
* Mauro Leonardi (Como 1959) has been a priest since 29 May 1988 and has lived in Rome since then. He spends many hours of his day as a priest and prefers building bridges rather than raising walls. For years he has been writing stories, articles, essays and books that revolve around the relationship between man and God. Author of the blog Like Jesus. Abelis (Lindau) is his latest novel. The volunteers of the Gionata Project thank him for wanting to share these reflections on the Word with us.
