Have salt...

Have salt in yourselves. ~Mark 9:50

For salt is the Lord Jesus Christ, who was able to preserve the whole earth, and made many to be salt in the earth. ~from Catena Aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels

The biblical images of the salt of the earth, of the light of the world, suggest something of the fact that the Church has a representative function. Salt of the earth presupposes that not the whole earth is salt. The Church has as Church a function for the whole, in the whole, and is not simply a copy of something else; she is not even a state. All of this must be present in her life. She must be aware of her quite specific mission: to be the world's escape from itself into the light of God and to keep open this possibility so that the air we breathe can penetrate into the world. ~Pope Benedict XVI in Salt of the Earth

O Jesus, be our salt!

Purify and preserve us as only You can.

Amen.