Season of Epiphany

Reading 3, 2 Pet 1:10-15 : Confirm your call and election
10 | Therefore, brethren, be the more zealous to confirm your call and election, for if you do this you will never fall; |
11 | so there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. |
12 | Therefore I intend always to remind you of these things, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have. |
13 | I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to arouse you by way of reminder, |
14 | since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me. |
15 | And I will see to it that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things. |
Gospel, Lk 5:33-39 : The question about fasting
33 | And they said to him, "The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink." |
34 | And Jesus said to them, "Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? |
35 | The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days." |
36 | He told them a parable also: "No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it upon an old garment; if he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. |
37 | And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. |
38 | But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. |
39 | And no one after drinking old wine desires new; for he says, `The old is good.'" |