[Grem] A mai szentmise igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, in today’s Gospel Jesus uses the images of salt and light to show
how we are to bring salvation to the world. In our rather privatized and
individualistic culture, we tend naturally to think of religion as
something for ourselves designed to make our lives richer or better. Now
there is a sense in which that is true, but on the biblical reading,
religiosity is like salt, light, and an elevated city: it is meant not for
oneself, but for others.Perhaps we can bring these two together by saying
that we find salvation for ourselves precisely in the measure that we bring
God’s life to others. The point is that we followers of Jesus are meant to
be salt, which effectively preserves and enhances what is best in the
society around us. We effectively undermine what is dysfunctional in the
surrounding culture.We are also light by which people around us come to see
what is worth seeing. By the very quality and integrity of our lives, we
shed light, illuminating what is beautiful and revealing what is ugly. The
clear implication is that, without vibrant Christians, the world is a much
worse place.*
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