General. The Eucharist is a prayer of thanksgiving in itself, thanking God for all His doings among us while giving Him all due praise. A particular prayer is raised today that He may look upon our family and be our help and strength in these troubled times of moral upheaval and danger to the family concept. Yet it is only God’s grace, which we obtain through the same Eucharist, which will ultiately see us through these troubled times.

Isaiah. The christian must show his belonging to God by sharing and living out His essential qualities of goodness and mercy. He has to be like a light shining in the darkness in a world where self and egoism are order of the day. In other words, the christian has to be seen living on the cross, reaching out in love to the world when it is most hating him.

First Epistle to the Corinthians. St Paul’s only interest was that of preaching Jesus crucified and resurrected from the dead. He knew that the role of the christian is to be obedient to God’s will, to die with Jesus every day to the world and to act and speak on the impulse given to him by the Spirit of God and not by boasting his worldly knowledge.

St Matthew. The christian’s vocation is to be the salt of the earth, that pinch of it which would give taste to the whole world. Like a little yeast which would leaven a whole loaf, or a little light which would show the way out of dark surroundings, the christian, in being the light of the world, would give taste, strength and light to a hedonistic and atheistic world where God and His Christ have little meaning today.

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