--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 2/6/11 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 2/6/11 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2011/02/06/daily-readings-reflection-for-2611#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 2/6/11 Feb 6, 2011 1:00:06 PM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Scripture: Lectionary # 74: Isaiah 58:7-10. Psalm 112:4-5,6-7,8-9. I Corinthians 2:1-5. and Mtthew 5:13-16 [Today's Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab) Recently we celebrated a feast that is associated with light, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple.  Jesus would be a light for the nations.  On this day we also blessed candles, hence, the feast is sometimes called Candlemass Day.  In Mexico children process with lighted candles to the altar on the day of their first communion.  What a beautiful custom connected with the Presentation of the Lord. The readings for this fifth Sunday in ordinary time have the theme of light. One can easily reflect on this symbol for Christ and through the Gospel make an application of what it means to have our good works shine in the world for others to see because we are the light or lights of the world!  Not a bad challenge for us this Sunday and the coming week. Salt is mentioned too by our Lord in his address to his disciples and to us. Jesus, we remember, speaks to us today just as clearly as he did to this disciples. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and in the time to come as we learned from Hebrews 13:8.  Moreover, in the Fourth Gospel we hear Jesus telling us plainly that he is the light of and for the world.  The prologue also associates him with light and to a lesser degree John the Baptist who is light coming from a lamp compared to the Light that is Jesus. Candles remind us of the liturgy within our churches and chapels.  The Paschal candle is lit during the Easter Season and at other occasions like Baptisms and Weddings.  Jesus' presence is also shared with us with the sanctuary lamp, a light near the front of the altar or near the tabernacle. The symbolic and metaphoric meaning of light is found in all four Gospels but it is Matthew who personalizes it in the little paragraph we have today for our proclaimed Gospel.  It can easily serve as our prayer for the week:"You (we) are the light of the world. ...You (we) are the salt of the earth". And the clincher: "Your light must shine so brightly before others that they can see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven." Psalm 112 like Psalm 27 is about light as a symbol for righteousness or integrity.  "The just one is a light in darkness to the upright." This helps us to pray that we may be light for the world.  And when we ask about the first reading and its relationship to the Gospel we see that our light shall break forth like the dawn.  The good works that Jesus says will come from our light are the acts of love and generosity that are mentioned in Isaiah and confirmed by Paul: sharing bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the homeless, clothing the naked and not turning away from our own when they need help. "Then light shall rise for you in the darkness, and the gloom shall become for you like mid-day." 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