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Salt in its Blessedness

You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not let the salt of the covenant with your God be lacking from your grain offering.

That was God’s instruction in Leviticus (2:13). Salt was poured on the offering to prevent decay and corruption. It prevented the ancient Hebrews from giving the Lord a second-rate and therefore unacceptable sacrifice.

For several centuries, up until 1970, blessed salt was placed in an infant’s mouth by the priest at baptism. It was the infant’s first taste of blessed food, a precursor to the Holy Eucharist, and prepared the salted infant to be a living sacrifice to God.

“You are the salt of the earth,” Christ told His disciples. Their job then was to preserve from corruption the valuable truths He taught them. In Christ’s time, salt was quite valuable. In fact, soldiers sometimes got paid their wages in salt. That is where the word “salary” comes from—the Latin word salis. (Think saline solution.) …

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