Hello everyone! Heyo! Welcome back to Scattering Flowers with Elise and Miles, a podcast where you read the daily Gospels and the Saint of the Day.
Let’s get started! Today is Friday, September 5th, and the Gospel reading is Luke 5, 33-39, and the Scripture Reflect on is Luke 5, 36.
He told them a parable also.
No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment.
If he does, he will tear the new and the piece from the new will not match the old.
My grandma is a good sewer.
She sews a lot of different types of things.
Dresses, shirts, blankets.
She’s taught me a little.
It’s a fun hobby and a really good thing to have in your back pocket.
One thing she does before she sews is she washes all the fabric before she stitches it together.
She says this is important because it will prevent shrink in the fabric, so that it won’t be two different sizes of the fabric sewn together.
Jesus is not talking about patching an old garment with an old piece of cloth.
Do you notice what he says?
He says no one puts a piece from a new garment from a new piece of clothing onto an old one.
He says the new piece will make it tear.
It won’t match, but even more obvious.
Why would you want to cut up the new piece of clothing in order to patch the old?
Just throw out the old and wear the new.
If you buy a new pair of jeans, would you cut them up so that I can patch the old pair?
I don’t think so.
Jesus is saying to the Pharisees, God gave it to you in the Old Testament law, but I’m here to bring you something completely new.
Today’s Saint of the Day is Saint Teresa of Calcutta, also known as Mother Teresa.
She was born August 26th, 1910, and died September 5th, 1997.
She’s the patron saint of the poor.
Mother Teresa at birth was named Agnes Ganja Buyajiu.
When she was young, she entered the institute known as the Sisters of Loreto.
She became a missionary to India and was a teacher in Calcutta.
One day in 1946, she was riding a train and the Lord told her his plan for her.
She would one day establish a new religious order that would live and work amongst the poor.
On the streets of Calcutta, India, she rented a room that she later used to care of the dying people she rescued from the streets.
Mother Teresa decided to spend her life helping the sick and the poor.
She started nursing and started working in areas with extreme poverty.
In 1948, she founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious order of women dedicated to serving the poor.
Mother Teresa led the order for nearly 50 years, opened schools for children and centers to treat the blind, the disabled, the old, and the dying.
She received many awards for her work.
Almost 20 years after she died, Mother Teresa was named a saint.
Jesus is always ready to teach us.
We have to be ready to change.
Close your eyes and think to yourself and ask Jesus if there’s anything in your life he wants you to change.
Is there anything bad that he wants you to stop doing?
Maybe even ask if there’s anything good that he wants you to start doing.
Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in peace.
Her way of peace is not complicated.
It starts with prayer and a smile and seeing Jesus in each and every person.
Today, can you take time to smile to a stranger?
It might be the only kindness they get from someone.
You can be a little bit of Jesus for them.
Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Dear God, help us to change anything we need to do that is distracting us from you.
Fill us up with your good things.
We love you.
And help me to live out today filled with your love so that I can show it to others by being kind, just like Mother Teresa did to others.
Mother Teresa, pray for us.
Amen.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Thank you so much for listening.
We’ll be back next week scattering more flowers.
See ya!