{"id":62165,"date":"2023-11-01T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T04:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insidethevatican.com\/?p=62165"},"modified":"2023-12-22T14:22:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T19:22:15","slug":"the-meaning-of-salt-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidethevatican.com\/magazine\/the-meaning-of-salt-of-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of “Salt of the Earth”"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Robert Moynihan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesus spoke of his followers as \u201cthe salt of the earth.\u201d Salt preserves food, so the \u201csalt of the earth\u201d helps to preserve… the earth \u2014 the whole world. But this occurs only if the \u201csalt\u201d… retains its \u201csaltiness\u201d… its holiness<\/i><\/h4>\n

\u201cYou are the salt of the earth!\u201d <\/i>\u2014Jesus, speaking to his disciples, in the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 5:13<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cSalt preserves. Thus we are called to preserve this Faith, just as the salt in Magdala preserved the fish caught by James and John, Peter and Andrew, so long ago. To be the \u2018salt of the earth\u2019 means to pass on the apostolic faith, unaltered, pure of decay or corruption, until the end of time.\u201d <\/i>\u2014Daniel Mattson, Catholic Answers, \u201cWhat it means to be \u2018salt of the earth\u2019\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Church fulfills her calling as \u2018the salt of the earth\u2019 in serving as the taste of the kingdom of heaven… in doing so, the body of Christ invites the world to the feast of life in the kingdom. Put differently, \u2018you are the salt of the earth\u2019 is not referring to the flavor and seasoning believers bring to human life and society. It is rather to be taken as signifying the beginnings of the heavenly banquet…\u201d <\/i>\u2014Protestant theologian Ken Montgomery, in \u201c\u2018You are the Salt of the Earth\u2019 (Matthew 5:13): Influence or Invitation?\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThe essence of the Christian faith is intimate friendship with Jesus, on which everything depends.\u201d <\/i>\u2014Benedict XVI, foreword to his Jesus of Nazareth trilogy, September 30, 2006<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cFor even within the same faith, each man\u2019s way is an entirely personal one. We have Christ\u2019s word: \u2018I am the way.\u2019 In that respect, there is ultimately one way, and everyone who is on the way to God is therefore in some sense also on the way of Jesus Christ. But this does not mean that all ways are identical in terms of consciousness and will, but, on the contrary, the one way is so big that it becomes a personal way for each man.\u201d <\/i>\u2014 Then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, in Peter Seewald\u2019s 1997 book-length interview him entitled Salt of the Earth: The Church at the End of the Millennium, p. 32<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cYou are \u2018the salt of the earth.\u2019 It is not for your own sake, he says, but for the world\u2019s sake that the Word is entrusted to you. I am not sending you only into two cities only, or 10 to 20, nor to a single nation, as I sent the prophets of old, but across land and sea, to the whole world. And that world is in a miserable state. For when he says: \u2018You are the salt of the earth,\u2019 he is indicating that all mankind had lost its savor and had been corrupted by sin. Therefore, he requires of these men those virtues which are especially useful and even necessary if they are to bear the burdens of many.\u201d <\/i>\u2014St. John Chrysostom, Homily on the Gospel of St. Matthew (Homily 15, 6-7: PG 57, 231-232). Born in 347 A.D., St. John became a monk and was ordained a priest to serve the Church in Antioch. His eloquent preaching earned him the title of \u201cChrysostom,\u201d meaning \u201cgolden-mouthed.\u201d In 398 A.D., he was named Patriarch Archbishop of Constantinople, much to his chagrin. This reluctant patriarch fulfilled his duty with energy and courage. But his call to repentance and moral reform won him the enmity of the nominally Christian Empress, who had him deposed and exiled. To this day, the principal \u201cByzantine\u201d liturgy celebrated by most Slavic, Greek, and middle-eastern Christians is known as the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. He died under the harsh conditions of his exile in 407 A.D., but he will always be remembered as one of the greatest of the Early Church Fathers. St. John Chrysostom is regarded as a \u201cDoctor of the Church\u201d by Catholics, and as one of the three Holy Hierarchs and Ecumenical teachers by Eastern Orthodox Christians.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 7, 2023, ROME<\/i><\/b>\u2014In Rome this morning, under a deep blue sky, Pope Francis<\/b>, at his Wednesday General Audience, reflected on the Gospel passage where Jesus says, \u201cYou are the salt of the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Christmas is now approaching, the words \u201cyou are the salt of the earth\u2019 take on immediate importance, for, by the coming onto the world of Jesus Christ, by His birth at Christmas, we experienced the \u201choly exchange\u201d: Christ exchanged His divinity for our humanity, and we exchnaged our humanity for His divinity. We exchanged our \u201csaltlessness\u201d for the \u201csaltiness\u201d of Christ, His holiness, His being. Thus, Christmas has an \u201contological\u201d dimension.<\/p>\n

Ontologically, the eternal \u201cbeing\u201d of Christ, son of the Eternal Father (\u201cBefore Abraham was, I am\u201d), entered into time with a holiness and power capable of drawing the world of sin and frustration \u201cupward\u201d toward that \u201cgreat banquest feast\u201d where all wounds are healed, and all tears wiped away.<\/p>\n

The profound advances of modern science and technology, have led us to the peculiar obsession of our present time: seeking eternal life through technology rather than through union with the eternal, holy God, that is, by becoming filled with grace, that is, by becoming holy.<\/p>\n

We seem to believe we will obtain our \u201csalvation\u2019 (our \u201csaltiness\u2019\u2019) through technology, not through… sanctity… through \u201cAI\u201d (Artificial Intelligence) and not through \u201cSI\u201d (Spiritual Intelligence): incorporation into the holiness of the risen Jesus Christ, by means of the mysteries of Christian life, also known as the \u201csacraments,\u201d all seven of which are intended to incorporate finite, sinful human beings into the infinite, holy being of the Risen Lord Himself. This is \u201cSpiritual Intelligence\u201d (SI).<\/p>\n

We have a calling, a vocation, each one of us. We are called to undertake a pilgrimage in this life, to set our sights on our true destiny, our true home, and journey toward that destiny, that home, in the face of every temptation, every proposed alternative destiny, focusing on that final goal alone. The goal is to encounter the Logos, Christ Himself… \u201cMan bears within him a thirst for the infinite, a longing for eternity, a quest for beauty, a desire for love… man bears within him the desire for God,\u201d Pope Benedict XVI<\/b> said in his General Audience of May 11, 2011. This is the message of Christianity, and it is the message that is behind all of the Church\u2019s elaborate structures, teachings, doctrines, commandments, counsels, laws, sacraments, rituals and charitable initiatives. Merry Christmas to all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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