The point in today’s gospel reading is to be “salt”: not to lose your taste for life or the flavor you bring to it.

Legal promises are mostly made of paper. The party of the first part agrees to X and the party of the second part reciprocates with Y. It's all very clean and tidy.

You’re here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth. If you lose your saltiness, how will people taste godliness? You’ve lost your usefulness and will end up in the garbage.”

MANY SAINTS, being humble folk, recoiled from the idea of letting others know of their goodness, and Jesus warns against doing good for admiration.

Brothers and sisters, let us acknowledge our sins, and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.

Out of small things come big things, scripture says. Lamps in ancient times were small and dim but there light made life possible

esus calls us “salt of the earth”—but how are we salty? Three ways: sweat, tears, and blood. When we work up a sweat physically or mentally, we’re expending energy for another.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. —Victor Hugo