Hello everyone! My name is Elise Brooklyn and this is Scattering Flowers, a podcast where we scatter flowers of faith.
I’m so happy to be with you reading the daily Gospels together.
Let’s get started! Today is Monday, January 20th, and we’ll be reading Mark 2, 18-22.
Follow along in your Bible if you have one.
Now let’s see Mark 2, 18-22.
Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and people came and said to him, Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?
And Jesus said to them, Can a wedding guest fast while the bridegroom is with them?
As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment.
If he does, the patch tears away from it, and the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins.
If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost.
And so are the skins.
But new wine is for fresh skins.
In today’s reading, the Pharisees ask Jesus, Why do we fast, but your disciples do not fast?
Jesus responded, Doing anything without God is of no value.
So today ask, Why do we read the Bible?
Why do we pray?
Why do we go to Mass?
If the end is because you have to, so you can check a box, or so you look good to others, then it is of no value.
The end of all our activity should be to serve God well and know Him better.
Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Dear God, help me to really pay attention to you, and serve you, and get to know you better.
Amen.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Thank you so much for listening.
I’ll be back tomorrow scattering more flowers.
See ya!