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Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Monday, Second Week in Ordinary Time, Year II, 19 January 2026 1 Samuel 15:16-23 <*((((>< + ><))))*> Mark 2:18-22
It is still too early, Lord Jesus Christ but every moment is always a "happy hour" in you as you speak of new wine into fresh wineskins:
Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are wuined. Rather, new wine in poured into fresh wineskins” (Mark 2:22).
Teach me, Jesus to have a "new mind in Christ" (1 Cor. 2:16), to truly fast my mind and my heart by emptying myself of so many things like beliefs and suppositions that prevent me from welcoming you into myself; turn me into a fresh wineskin, Lord by discarding my old self that has become my comfort zone of complacency and mediocrity; teach me obedience, Jesus that I may truly appreciate and realize the true meaning of our many traditions like fasting and prayer that lead to glorifying you and union in you; forgive me on many occasions of acting and believing like King Saul of justifying disobedience, insisting on my own understanding and seeing of things.
Many times, indeed, we "burst" because we never have you in us, Jesus, for we are so filled with our old selves. Amen.
