Son of David, have pity on us!

Is 29,17-24; Ps 26,1.4.13-14; Mt 9,27-31.
7 DECEMBER

Jesus came to free man from the condition of total blindness in which he lives. The sons of Abraham are blind because, despite having on their side the Lord who always wanted to open their eyes, they have refused to open to his ministry of light. Instead, pagans are blind because they have not known God and seek him as though groping but without being able to reach the fullness of truth. Blindness in the knowledge of the mystery happens by revelation. For this reason Jesus was sent: to give sight to the blind, enlightening every man with the pure knowledge of the Father. Without Christ, one remains without true knowledge. One is blind in spirit and soul. You do not see God.

And he replied: Go and say to this people: Listen carefully, but you shall not understand! Look intently, but you shall know nothing! You are to make the heart of this people sluggish, to dull their ears and close their eyes; Else their eyes will see, their ears hear, their heart understand, and they will turn and be healed (Is 6,9-10). “You Athenians, I see that in every respect you are very religious. For as I walked around looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar inscribed, ‘To an Unknown God.’ What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and all that is in it, the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything. Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything. He made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions, so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us. For ‘In him we live and move and have our being,’ as even some of your poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’ Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination. God has overlooked the times of ignorance, but now he demands that all people everywhere repent because he has established a day on which he will ‘judge the world with justice’ through a man he has appointed, and he has provided confirmation for all by raising him from the dead” (At 17,22-31).

The prophecy of Isaiah, read by Jesus in the synagogue of Nazareth and declared completed by Him, must not be understood in a material and physical, but spiritual sense. Jesus came to free from the blindness of true knowledge of God and from the slavery of sin.

He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.” Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him. He said to them, “Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing”  (Lk 4,16-21).

Jesus came to give sight to the blind. But even the blind must have in their hearts the desire to be healed. But, as in the time of Jesus, man is blind and says he sees. His blindness remains. The light is offered and is welcomed, but it is also asked and received. Every Christian is sent into the world as light. He must offer his to all light, but even before everyone must see his light. The light is seen, offered, asked and refused. If the Christian does not show and does not give light, he is responsible for the darkness.

And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed (him), crying out, “Son of David, have pity on us!” When he entered the house, the blind men approached him and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I can do this?” “Yes, Lord,” they said to him. Then he touched their eyes and said, “Let it be done for you according to your faith.” And their eyes were opened. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one knows about this.” But they went out and spread word of him through all that land.

It is the Christian who is the dispenser of the light of Christ, he dispenses it by making it his true light.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints ensure that every disciple is a minister of the light of the Master.