GOSPEL POWER l JUNE 7, 2022 - TUESDAY of 10th Week in Ordinary Time

Gospel: Mt 5:13-16 

Jesus said to his disciples, 13“You are the salt of the earth; but if salt  has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer  good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled underfoot. 14You  are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. 15No  one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the  lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. 16In the same way, let  your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works  and give glory to your Father in heaven.” 

Salt and light are seemingly insignificant everyday  commodities. But they are packed with power so  essential, that life will diminish in quality without them.  Imagine a meal without salt and a night without even a spark of light!  Just as salt brings out the true flavor of food, and light enables people  to see and move about in the darkness, so should believers manifest  through their witness of life the presence of God’s Kingdom that Jesus  already inaugurated on earth by his passion, death and resurrection.  For now, this Kingdom remains a veiled reality until the designated  time for its full revelation. But God wills to make it known through  simple believers who act as salt that preserves the upside-down  values of Jesus and his choice of the path of downward mobility. As  they continue to propose the way of Jesus in today’s world marked  by excessive self-promotion and upward mobility, the lives of these  believers shine from within, enabling people to catch a glimpse of  the city on the hill, which is the still-veiled Kingdom already present  among us. 

Lord Jesus, guard our light from being extinguished by the winds of the world. Amen.