"While the bridegroom is with them"

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 5:33-39.
And they said to him, "The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same; but yours eat and drink."
Jesus answered them, "Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?
But the days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days."
And he also told them a parable. "No one tears a piece from a new cloak to patch an old one. Otherwise, he will tear the new and the piece from it will not match the old cloak.
Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be ruined.
Rather, new wine must be poured into fresh wineskins.
(And) no one who has been drinking old wine desires new, for he says, 'The old is good.'"

Commentary of the day
Saint Augustine (354-430), Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church
Homilies on the First Epistle of Saint Jean, I, 2 (©Augustinian heritage institute; SC 75, p. 115)

"While the bridegroom is with them"

«We have seen,» he says, «and we are witnesses.» Where did they see? In a manifestation. What does that mean, "in a manifestation"? In the sun -that is, in this light. But how could he who made the sun be seen in the sun if not for the fact that «he pitched his tent in the sun and, like a bridegroom coming forth from his marriage bed, rejoiced like a giant to run his course» (Ps 19,4-5)? He who made the sun was before the sun, he was before the morning star, before all the stars, before all the angels. He is the true creator, because «everything was made through him, and apart from him nothing was made» (Jn 1,3). Thus he would be seen by the fleshly eyes that see the sun. He pitched his tent itself in the sun-that is, he showed his flesh in the manifestation of this light. And the marriage bed of that bridegroom was the Virgin's womb.

For in that virginal womb two things were joined, a bridegroom and a bride, the bridegroom being the Word and the bride being flesh. For it is written, «And they shall be two in one flesh» (Gn 2,24 Vg), and the Lord says in the gospel, «Therefore they are no longer two but one flesh» (Mt 19,6). Isaiah also notes very well that these two are themselves one, for he speaks in the person of Christ and says, «He set a wreath upon me like a bridegroom, and like a bride he adorned me with an ornament» (61,10). One person appears to be speaking, and he has made himself a bridegroom and has made himself a bride, because they aren't two but one flesh, for «the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us,» (Jn 1,14) The Church is joined to that flesh, and Christ becomes the whole, head and body (Eph 1,22).

My Reflection:

The message for me in this Gospel tells me to be connected everyday, every moment and every step of the way to God. Being the Word and the Flesh is enough for me to know that He is my saviour and my God.