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"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.
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You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.
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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.
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Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.
"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.
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You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.
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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.
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Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.
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This was the lovely scripture chosen for the Gospel reading at a wedding I attended today. The bride and groom were perfectly radiant and all aglow. And they looked so young. Don't they always look so young? So ready for adventure? So blissfully eager to face the challenges ahead and so naively unaware of the joys and sorrows that await them. But, their faith and the graces that the sacraments provide will sustain them even when the naivete and the blissful eagerness wanes. That is our prayer for them and I trust it will be answered.
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