The fourth century Father of the Church, Saint Ephrem once spoke of today’s Gospel from far away Edessa. Put your lamp, Jesus says, on a lamp stand, for all the world to see.
Christ, Saint Ephrem tells us, is that lamp, while the Church is the lamp stand and the flame is the action of the Holy Spirit.
Each one of us, then, are called to join ourselves with Christ the true light of the world, enlightening this world from the lamp stand of the Church and ever burning by the grace of the Holy Spirit.
