Let Your Light Shine

Mark 4: 21-23

A Lamp on a Stand

²¹ He said to them, “Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand? ²² For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open. ²³ If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.”

²⁴ “Consider carefully what you hear,” he continued. “With the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more. ²⁵ Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.”

As we celebrate the lives of Saints Timothy and Titus, we are reminded of our own call to be evangelizers, teachers, preachers, witnesses of the LIGHT, Jesus.  We have not been given the gift of faith to keep it under the bed, but to let it shine so that others may see, may believe, may live in joy.  We are called to share what we have, not hide it.  Today there is so much fear of rocking the boat, upsetting others; so much "political correctness" that we feel compelled to live our faith in private and let others do whatever they want.  What if the disciples of Jesus or the countless saints and teachers over the centuries had done that?  There would be no Church today. But they lived their faith and shared it with others;  so must we.

Bro. Rene 

Heavenly Father, through the incarnation of your Son, the Church bears the divine light of the anointed one. Let each of us bear the infinite measure: Christ alive in us. Overflowing with infinite grace, may we offer more than our life's work. Give us courage to share the living Christ for all to see, who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen

  Aaron Morris, C.S.C.