Our Mission ...

Salt of the Earth and Light of the World.

Christians are not only to be “virtuous”,

 they are to be salt, that is,

 they are to rise the level of flavor of every human activity

 and thus, transform it.

      Salt is one of those primary realities that can contribute

to enchanting the quality of other things,

but that is itself hopeless once it goes bad.

Salt is not for itself, cannot be its own end;

It serves as humble yet somehow indispensable purpose.

      The light has flows from a Christian’s presence should manifest

      God’s joyous glory and induce men to return that glory to God in praise.

      Since baptism, confirmation and the Eucharist has impressed the form

of Christ upon their lives, Christianity in a real sense, are the visibility

of God’s glory.

      The presence of those Christians who are salt and light to others

      demonstrates that God’s dwelling, which properly heaven, has become

embodied in a humble human house, made from the clay of the earth

but filled with God’s quickening breath.

      How dear to Christ the ordinary things of the world, which nonetheless

also contain the mystery of the vitality and beauty, not only of this present

world, but of the world of God.

 (Fire of Mercy, By Erasmo Leiva - Merikakis)

5th Sunday Ord. Time