Mt. 5:13-16  “You are the salt of the earth.”

It may be that we like to think that we are the light of the world and we leave aside that other sentence of Jesus that exhorts us today to be salt of the earth. In a society oversaturated with offers to make the most of life and enjoy it, that sentence calls us to ask ourselves: could it really be that all that is offered to us today, and every day greater novelty, makes us really savor and enjoy life? Could it not be that this abundance is becoming bland and is producing a tiredness that bores and exhausts? Jesus in that phrase pronounced at the end of the Beatitudes is telling us something that must shake us: you are the salt of the earth, you whom I have called blessed, you have to show with your life what true happiness consists of and how when it is discovered it is like an inexhaustible well.