Luke 5:36-39
The New Cloth and New Wineskins
Luke 5 · shown in the Douay-Rheims
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Read Luke 5:36-39 in the NABRE onlineAnd he spoke also a similitude to them: That no man putteth a piece from a new garment upon an old garment; otherwise he both rendeth the new, and the piece taken from the new agreeth not with the old. And no man putteth new wine into old bottle: otherwise the new wine will break the bottles, and it will be spilled, and the bottles will be lost.
But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved. And no man drinking old, hath presently a mind to new: for he saith, The old is better.
Reflection
Something genuinely new needs a form that can hold it. Old habits will tear under the weight of grace.