They say they are in favor of change, appoint a committee to study it, which guarantees that change will never happen at least for a long, long time. Change is not easy for any human being. And all ages are subject to change. One of the things that modern science has shown us is that everything is changing. We can date things, even rocks, through science.
Rocks are in the process of changing.
Our Old Testament lesson, Hosea, shows that the relationship between the people of Israel and God is always changing, hopefully deepening, but sometimes becoming unfaithful. It is not stagnant. In Jesus, in today's Gospel and as we'll see Paul in his writings, are having the difficult task of trying to introduce to people a radical change, a new covenant that will supplant the old covenant, a very, very radical change for a people who have known the old for such a very long period of time. The patch and the new wine are themselves changing. It's not just old garment new patch, old wineskins new wine.