Main news for 2 January 2021

According to the Torah, the sacrificial meat, before being put on the altar, must be necessarily salted. Salt became the symbol of purity and readiness to consecration not accidentally: it prevents the damage and the decomposition of several products, in particular meats also, quite as the observation of the commandments prevent the spiritual damage of man. But salt in itself is not enough in order for the meat to become sacrificial: for that it must be sanctified by this God's presence that dwelled at the altar. Jesus compares his followers with the sacrificial meat prepared for consecration.

It is about the life in the Kingdom that He brought in the world. It is impossible to enter this Kingdom without sanctification and transformation, and joining its life takes place according to the measure of the fullness of such a transformation. The breath of the Kingdom accompanying the Christian on his spiritual way is sometimes called grace.

It is not accidentally that in the books of the New Testament Christians are usually called "saints", meaning not righteousness, as we understand this word today, but the fact of their sanctification as a result of belonging to the Kingdom. Sanctification was always seen in the first Christian churches as a distinctive feature of Christians. And the Savior speaks about the same thing: it is impossible for a Christian not to be ready for consecration, if he loses this willingness, he is no more a Christian.

The salt that lost its savor is something completely improbable, salt doesn’t loss in any way its properties, it can only be imperceptible, if its concentration (for example, in solution) is too small. The salt that lost its savor is not already any more the salt, and most of all it was not salt from the beginning. It is the same thing with Christian: the Christian not wishing sanctification, not looking for the life of the Kingdom is not at all a Christian; probably such a person had never been Christian, coming to the Church by mistake or by misunderstanding. Indeed, Christianity is neither a new religion, nor a new morality, but a new life. Life in the Kingdom.