The Fifth Sunday of the Year
Is 58:7-10; 1 Cor 2:1-5; Mt 5:13-16 (year a)
‘Share your bread with the hungry, and shelter the homeless poor. Then will your light shine like the dawn, and your wound be quickly healed over.”
The prophet Isaiah understood the relief of poverty as faith’s most fundamental witness. His words were addressed to a people who had experienced overwhelming deprivation. Their restoration and healing would be complete only when they, in their turn, became the living lights of God’s abiding care for the poor and needy.
