The gospel for Tuesday of the tenth week in Ordinary Time is taken from Matthew 5, 13, 16. Jesus said to his disciples, you are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything, but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.

Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket. It is set on a lampstand where it gives light to all in the house. Just so. Your light must shine before others so that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father. There’s an interesting image in this reading, and that is the fear that salt might lose its flavor. It cannot lose its flavor.

A light that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. It’s almost like Jesus is saying, look, I have made you into salt. I have made you light to the world. And it’s not your effort. It’s not. Not what you have to do.

It’s who you are. And when you are who God has called you to be, it will resonate. It will be impossible for it not to be sent forth into the world to enrich it, to preserve what is good and to enable people to see. Please reflect on these words. And at the end of the music, I will close with a prayer. Sa Satan, sa foreign closing prayer.

Father, it’s not what we do, it’s who we are. And you teach us that over and over again. And the reason we should have confidence in it is because you are one with us. Your Spirit, Holy Spirit dwells in us. It cannot not produce goodness. Open us to this truth.

And we ask this in Jesus name, Amen.