[Grem] Gospel meditation

[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.*

*Imádkozzál érettünk, Istennek szent Anyja!  Hogy méltók lehessünk Krisztus
ígéreteire!  Könyörögjünk! Kérünk téged, Úristen, öntsd lelkünkbe szent
kegyelmedet, hogy akik az angyali üzenet által szent Fiadnak, Jézus
Krisztusnak megtestesülését megismertük, az ő kínszenvedése és keresztje
által a föltámadás dicsőségébe vitessünk! Krisztus, a mi Urunk által. Ámen.*

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