Gospel (Luke 5,33-39)
But they said to him, “Why do the disciples of John fast frequently, and make supplications, and those of the Pharisees act similarly, while yours eat and drink?” And he said to them: “How can you cause the sons of the groom to fast, while the groom is still with them? But the days will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast, in those days.” Then he also made a comparison for them: “For no one sews a patch from a new garment onto an old garment. Otherwise, he both disrupts the new one, and the patch from the new one does not join together with the old one. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine ruptures the wineskins, and it will be poured out, and the wineskins will be lost. Instead, the new wine is put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. And no one who is drinking the old, soon wishes for the new. For he says, ‘The old is better.’ ”
Amen