In today’s Daily Mass with Word on Fire, Bishop Barron’s homily spoke about the light of Christ and what people did with that light in the Acts of the Apostles.

“I came into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me might not remain in darkness.” (John. 12:46).

To see, we do not look directly into the source of light (example a light bulb or the sun), we operate by using that source to see everything around us, and Jesus is like that. Bishop Barron explains how the light of Jesus allows our life to make sense, without it we would just be stumbling around in the dark. In today’s reading from chapter 12 of Acts, we see how this light shines on the people of the early Church to perform the three essentials: serving the poor, worshiping God, and evangelizing.

Serving the poor- “After Barnabas and Saul completed their relief mission, they returned to Jerusalem, taking with them John, who is called Mark.” (Acts. 12:25).

Worshiping God- “While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” Then, completing their fasting and prayer, they laid hands on them and sent them off.” (Acts. 13:2-3).

Evangelizing- “So they, sent forth by the holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and from there sailed to Cyprus. When they arrived in Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues.” (Acts. 13:4-5A).

These are the three basic things we do when we have the light of Christ in our lives. We saw it with the first evangelists and apologists, and two thousand years later we still see it and we can all live better because of it.