Every Wine Has its Container.

Homily for July 8, 2017


Sometime ago, I saw a documentary on the process of wine brewing and it was interesting to see how grapes are harvested, pressed and fermented to produce wine. What really struck me while watching the documentary was when it noted that the shape of the wine glass determines the taste of the wine.

How is it possible that the same wine tastes differently in two different types of glass? This is a mystery I am yet to fully understand. However from our Gospel passage this morning, Jesus gives us a little hint: Wine selects its container.

You do not put new wine into old wineskins except you wish to risk losing both the wine and the skins. Just as wine selects its container, the Christian life also selects its environment; there is a particular attitude, a particular mode of behaviour, a particular type of spirituality that is befitting of a Christian.

You cannot claim to be a Christian with a bad attitude. You risk losing your Christian Faith and even your very life itself. Again, you cannot be a Christian and still live a life of pretence; or show-off as the case may be. Otherwise, one day your fake skin will burst and the whole would know you had just been deceiving yourself.

You cannot be a Christian and still be living your life based on “copy – copy” that is, doing things just because you see others doing them.

Do not go about fasting just because you see people fast. If you must fast, then have the right conviction and let your fasting be personal to you. We must stop unnecessary competitions among ourselves.

In today’s first reading, we saw how Jacob trickily obtained the blessing meant for Esau through the connivance of Rebekah his mother. Indeed, there is nothing like receiving blessing from the old because whatever they say must come to pass.

Let us pray: Lord Jesus, may the wine of your sweetness find a ready skin in my heart. Amen.

*Be Happy. Live Positive. Have Faith. It is well with you. God bless you. (Saturday of the 13th Week in Ordinary Time. Bible Study: Genesis 27:1-29 and Matthew 9:14-17).*

Fr. Abu.




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