New wine, new wineskins...

"And no one puts new wineskins 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."  ~Mark 2:22

"Being Christian ultimately means, not doing things, but allowing oneself to be renewed by the Holy Spirit -– or, to use the words of Jesus, becoming new wine....  Don’t be afraid of the newness of the Gospel! Don’t be afraid of the newness that the Holy Spirit works in us!

"...Let us ask for the grace of not being afraid of the newness of the Gospel, of not being afraid of the renewal that the Holy Spirit brings, of not being afraid to let go of the passing structures that imprison us. If we are afraid, we know that the Mother is with us. And like children who are a little afraid, let us go to her –- and she, as the ancient antiphon says, -– ‘will protect us with her cloak, with her motherly protection.’"

~Pope Francis, 7/6/13 Homily

Behold, I make all things new!

Revelation 21:5