TO BE A LIGHT WITH THE EXAMPLE The Christians we must be salt and light in the middle of the world. The example has to go ahead. Exemplary nature in the family, professional life, etc. specimens in the charity and in the temperance. For nothing it serves the insipid salt. There speaks to us the Master of our responsibility before the world: " You are the salt of the earth... You are the light of the world ". And he us says it to each one, to whom we want to be his disciples. The salt gives flavor to the food, makes them agreeable, preserves of the corruption and it was a symbol of the divine wisdom. In the Former Testament there was prescribed that everything what was offering iGod was taking salt, meaning the will of the offerer of which it was agreeable. The light is the God's first work in the creation, and is a symbol of the same Lord, of the Sky and of the Life. The glooms, on the contrary, mean the death, the hell, the disorder and the evil. The disciples of Christ are the salt of the earth: they give a higher sense to all the human values, avoid the corruption, bring with his words the wisdom to the men. They are also a light of the world, which orientates and indicates the way in the middle of the darkness. When they live according to his faith, with his irreproachable and simple behavior, they shine as Venus in the world, in the middle of the work and his housekeeping, in his current life. On the other hand, how it is obvious when the Christian does not act in the family, in the society, in the public life of the peoples! When the Christian does not take Christ's doctrine there where his life develops, the same human values become insipid, without any transcendency, and often corrupe. When we look to ours around it seems to us as if, in many occasions, the men had lost the salt and Christ's light. " The civil life is marked by the consequences of the secularized ideologies, which go, from the God's denial or the limitation of the religious freedom, to the preponderant importance attributed to the economic success with regard to the human values of the work and of the production; from the materialism and the hedonism, which there attack the values of the prolific and united family, those of the life newly concepted and the moral guardianship of the youth, to a "nihilism" that disarms the will to confront crucial problems as those of the new poor, emigrants, ethnic and religious minorities, straight use of the means of information, while it assembles the hands of the terrorism " (JOHN PAUL II). There are many males that stem of " the defection of baptized and believers of the deep reasons of his faith and of the doctrinal and moral vigor of this Christian vision of the life, which guarantees the balance to persons and communities " (Paul to the Corint)).
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