When he was at table with them, he took the bread. He blessed the bread, and broke it, and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognized him!(Luke 24:13-35)

Thursday, December 3, 2009

To what am I blind today?

Friday, November 4, 2009
First Friday
The Sorrowful Mysteries
Isaiah 29:17-24
Psalm 27:1, 4, 13-14
Matthew 9:27-31

Jesus heals the blind every day. Jesus heals the blind heart that refuses to see what it does to others. He opens the eyes of those who cannot see their brothers and sisters in the people who surround them.

We are all blind in one way or another. We are all lost and lame and hurting. Jesus is there, if we call on Him and believe in Him to heal us. He will help us to be well physically. But more importantly, He will teach us to love, generously, overwhelmingly, powerfully. Jesus loves us from blindness to blinding sight and then He love us into action.

But there is a catch: He does so only if we believe in Him and believe that He will do so. He is such a loving Lord that He won’t heal us unless we allow our free wills to let Him into our lives. We must believe in Him unquestioningly and completely, trusting all that we have and all that we are to Him. And it is part of our blindness that we can't see the goodness of what He has in store for us.

In Friday’s gospel Jesus gives sight to two blind men. After His death and resurrection He reveals Himself to the disciples on the road to Emmaus as well as in many other instances. Saul, soon to become Paul, is made blind and then Jesus gives his sight back to him and he sees the Truth clearly. For some of us, we are made to see, only to become blind once more to be healed by His amazing grace once again.

How does this happen? Through prayer, reconciliation, penance, and more prayer. So in this advent season, let us pray for sight that we may see and greet His coming, as Christ the Risen Lord, and as Christ the new-born babe.

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