A free gift of grace

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This Sunday’s Gospel reading presents a much more difficult challenge to anyone who wished to follow after Jesus. In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus lays out three conditions for discipleship. Salt’s value made even a humble grain offering a precious and costly gift. Jesus’ own perfect offering is the “salt” with which disciples make the gift of their own humble lives precious. The most precious gift we can make to God is the “salt” of our faith in Christ to the exclusion of all other considerations.