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My Brothers and Sisters in Christ - Our modern day culture and society are obsessed with the self. Everywhere you look, people are calling attention to themselves in various ways - Facebook profiles, WhatsApp status, Instagram pics, tik tok videos, Twitter twits, you name it.. People want personal credit: likes, views, compliments -- for everything they do ---- for what they possess. People can be extremely selfish these days. They resist helping others who have less. They have no regard for those who are suffering economically.

And most tragically of all, many people have no idea what God expects of them - and why God created them in the first place!

The scriptures this Sunday tell us why we are here – and what is expected of us as God’s creation. They present a two-fold mission to the world, to be salt and to be light.

Is your salt salty and your light shining? If not then you are in the right place. Let us pray for the grace to be salt of the earth and light of the world.

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Brothers and sisters, the powerful image of Jesus as light runs through all the readings this Sunday.

In the first reading the prophet Isaiah refers to Christ as the light that dispels the darkness of this world.

The psalmist today says,The Lord is my light and my salvation.

St Paul in the 2nd reading advises the Corinthians to live as children of Light, steering clear of division and rivalry, things of darkness.

St Matthew in the gospel wanted his readers to recognize that the Light of which Isaiah spoke had finally appeared with the coming of Jesus Christ. By His ministry of inviting people to His kingdom of peace through preaching, healing and calling people to repent, He is bringing them from darkness into light.

Friends to fully understand what Jesus is doing, lets reflect briefly on this question.

How do we see anything? We can only see if there are two things present. Light and a healthy eye, or good eyesight.

Without Christ the light, we are in total darkness. We are spiritually blind and unable to see what we are, who we are and where we are going as pilgrims in this life.

How do we respond to this light - Look at how Peter, Andrew, James and John responded when they entered the light -

They did not hold on to anything they had or knew. Instead they dropped everything, their livelihood, their culture, their plans, their hopes and basked in the light of Christ, reflecting it and like stars radiating this light - pointing the way to Jesus, the true light.

Friends in Christ, we thank God for Jesus and pray for the grace like the disciples to radiate his light when we receive him in Holy communion, pointing our brothers to this Light - The eternal Light.

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Brothers and sisters, when we meet someone for the first time, we make judgements whether or not we like them or want to associate ourselves with them based on the little information we have have about them, their demeanour, their behaviour and even their appearance.

Sometimes we get it horribly wrong. Sometimes the person is not all that we thought they were – Or they are much more than we first assumed. The double tragedy is that on the one hand we can be “taken in” and exploited in one case – Or we can dismiss someone of great integrity and value on the other hand. All the scriptures for today point to Jesus as someone who was infinitely more than what he appeared to be at first glance. We pray for the grace and humility to accept all as brothers and sisters as they are created in the image and likeness of God and temple of the Holy spirit.

We pray today for our brothers and sisters who have died William Mcclafferthy, Helen Manka Fon, Mary,

And for those who are sick and in hospital - Fr Bob

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