--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 9/03/10 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 9/03/10 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2010/09/03/daily-readings-reflection-for-90310#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 9/03/10 Sep 3, 2010 9:01:31 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) **Reflection on Today’s Daily Readings by Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM ** [Today’s Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/) Scripture: Lectionary 435: I Cor. 4:1-5. Psalm 37:3-4.5-6.27-28.39-40.28. Luke 5:33-39. Paul encourages us just as he is encouraging the Corinthians. Let us take time to reread some of these early chapters of I Cor. with are so Spirit-filled that they get us out of any depressing thoughts and loathesome tasks that we do. He is telling us to be good servants and adminstrators of the Lord. He assures us that our Baptism and our particpation in the Lord's Supper makes us one with Jesus the Lord (see chapter 11). To appreciate this we have to participate in the Eucharist in an active way with full-hearted thanksgiving. We have to recall that we are baptized into the very life of Christ and his mysteries of suffering, death, and resurrection. We too like the Corinthians are to be trustworthy. God is the ultimate authority and the Judge; we are not. Judging others does not help to make us trustworthy citizens of the Holy City of God. All of us are members of the Body of Christ and the unity that our ordinary bodies have should all the moreso be reflected in the mystical Body of Christ, the Church. Psalms are meant to be sung and prayed. They help us to embrace the other readings and sometimes they are the glue that brings them together. They are to be enjoyed and experienced as our brothers and sisters in the synagogue enjoy and even dance with them. Through them Paul's message comes through: "Commit to the Lord your way; trust in him and he will act." (Psalm 37:5) The Psalm is telling us to relieve ourselves of the burden of anxiety by placing it upon Him (God). This Psalm is an antidote for any murmurring or talking behind people's backs. Tertuallian called it "The Mirror of Divine Providence." If so, this mirror happens to be the wisdom figure, the guru, the spiritual director, the mentor who has advice for us when we wonder why bad things happen to good people and good things seem to happen to bad people. Then we turn to Jesus who is always in halakic arguments with his friends the Pharisees. He spiritually is close to them in all of their beliefs and most of their practices, but not in the way they sometimes interpret the Torah. They are questioning a holy man who cures others about fasting. He points out that fasting is reserved for specific days or events but not during the time of a wedding or a festival. The bridegroom is among us and we do not fast. We dance, sing, and meet and speak with friends. We make new acquaintances. For us Christians we have solemn times for fasting: Lent, the Holy Days, and those times when the Spirit moves us to join fasting to our prayers. Jesus turns to the topic of new wine, old wine and wineskins. Boxes and bottles are not on his mind for this precious gift of the land made from grapes. New wine in new wineskins; old wine in older wineskins. The saying is fascinating and may be a passage to be connected to the Wedding Feast of Cana wherein the miracle of so much wine bespeaks of the messianic event and of the theme of new creation. Unlike Marcion who expunged everything that had an Old Testment idea within it from his New Testament. He only accepted some of Paul's letters and the Gospel of Luke. Thomas Jefferson liked to do the same with his sizzors and tape when he read the Bible! Here an ecumenical and Christian-Jewish interpretation is afforded by one of the best of Luke's interpreters, Fr. Robert J. Karris, O.F.M., says, "Verse 39: the old is good: This unique Lucan proverb curbs one line of interpreting verses 37-38. The old is not to be cast aside, for the sabbath and the law and the prophets also contain God's will." In applying it to Jesus, he says, "new wine": In Jesus, God has done something new. The symbol of new wine teases the imagination to think of life triumphing over death. The harvest has been productive, and life has vanquished the forces of death in drought, disease, and flood. From grapes, pulverized and inedible, surges bubbling, hearty, heady new wine to rejoice the heart." 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