How to Be the Light in the Darkness
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Have you switched the light on in your faith? Drawing from Matthew 5 and the Sermon on the Mount, Dr. Sri explores what Jesus truly meant when He called His disciples to be salt of the earth and light of the world. Unpacking the historical world of first-century Judaism—with its political turmoil, Roman oppression, and competing religious responses—Dr. Sri emphasizes Jesus' powerful message centered on wholehearted surrender to God.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, |
| 0:05.5 | videos, and resources, to help you live your faith every day, visit ascensionpress.com. |
| 0:12.1 | Hi, I'm Edwards 3, and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:24.1 | When we look out and see what's happening in our world, we can get easily discouraged. |
| 0:29.2 | What's going on? |
| 0:30.1 | Why are so many people turning away from God, from faith, from morality, from any kind of |
| 0:35.1 | truth? |
| 0:35.8 | And there's so much polarization today, so much fragmentation in society. |
| 0:41.3 | And it's leaving a lot of people really hurt. |
| 0:44.1 | And there's a lot of loneliness and anxiety and depression and fear and rage. |
| 0:50.4 | What is going wrong with the world? |
| 0:53.6 | Why are so many people turning away from God and turning away from each other? |
| 0:57.0 | Well, I want to share with you an insight from an early church father named St. John Chrysostom. |
| 1:03.0 | And he was looking out at the pagan world in his day. |
| 1:06.0 | And he said, the number one reason that we see darkness in this world. |
| 1:11.3 | Why is there darkness in this world? |
| 1:12.7 | He says, it's because of Christians. |
| 1:14.8 | It's because of Christians who fail to be who they were meant to be, to become who they |
| 1:21.2 | are meant to become in Jesus Christ. |
| 1:23.3 | And he made this comment when reflecting on Matthews Gospel chapter 5, the same passage we're all going to be reflecting on this upcoming Sunday at Mass. |
| 1:31.3 | It's the mass reading from the sermon of the Mount when Jesus told the disciples, be salt to the earth, be light to this world. |
| 1:41.1 | And the point St. John Christosostom is making here is that when we see darkness out in the world, |
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