Catholic Mass Readings and Reflection June 10, 2025
Tuesday – 10th Week in Ordinary Time
10th June 2025 (Tuesday)
Psalter: Week 2
Readings of the Day
First Reading: 2 Corinthians 1:18-22
Brethren: As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes. For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory. And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
Psalm 119:129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 135 R. (135a)
R/. Let your face shine forth on your servant
Gospel Acclamation
V/. Alleluia
R/. Alleluia
V/. Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
R/. Alleluia
Gospel: Matthew 5:13-16
At that time: Jesus said to his disciples, “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet. “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Daily Gospel Reflection
Tuesday – 10th Week in Ordinary Time
Main Point: The more we realise and live our true identity, the more our life will be authentic and our mission will be effective. The crisis in vocation and mission is basically a crisis in identity
1. Today we hear about the “identity crisis” in many circles of life. Things go wrong, relationships go wrong because people are either not conscious of who they are, or not faithful to who they are. This is what is a failure or crisis in identity. Often in our materialistic, activist, and pragmatic world, identity is equated with status or function. Accordingly, people identify themselves with their post and position or action and function.
2. But I am not merely what I do. My activity does not completely determine my identity. This is like answering the question, “Who/What are you?” with “I am a teacher or doctor et cetera”. It is not that our doing is not important. In fact, being and doing are not contradictory but complementary. The main point is that our “being” must be more important than our mere “doing”. All our doing must authenticate a genuine being. All our activities and functions must flow from an authentic identity.
3. Otherwise, there is always the danger that people wrongly seek their identity in their roles, functions, offices, positions, talents, or affinity-groups. It is in this context that Jesus reminds us of our identity through two simple metaphors, salt, and light. He says, “You ‘are’ the salt of the earth”; “You ‘are’ the light of the world”.
4. In both salt and light, we can identify two aspects: their identity and their effectiveness. There is saltiness in salt and it is useful in giving taste. There is radiance in the light and it is useful in lighting and brightening. Salt and light are no good when they lose their identity and are not available for use. In other words, the more we are faithful to our identity, the more we will be effective.
5. Now, how to increase our being tasty and lighted? St Paul gives us the way in the first reading: it is by being faithful and bearing testimony to Jesus Christ, the greatest Yes to God. This means that he was ever positive, affirmative and faithful to God. There is never a No, a negation on his part. Therefore, fidelity and testimony to him means that we also become a constant Yes to God.
6. Now, to the extent this benevolent identity is lived and exercised, to that extent God Himself is glorified, because He is the source of super-benevolence. The fruit of this Yes and identity through benevolence is abundance of God’s grace.
My Practice: The more we are strive faithfully to live our identity, the more God is glorified and the more He will glorify us, in the abundance of taste and brightness
