One thing I do know is that I was blind and now I see

SUNDAY 22 MARCH (Jn 9,1-41)

The blind from birth is the true image of humanity. It is blind not because the Lord created it blind, but because it was made blind and is born blind because of Adam’s inheritance. Blindness then increases in proportion to the personal sins that are committed. Today, blindness has reached such a high level as to not even see the simplest truths of human nature. The more blindness grows, the more it generates hatred towards the light that comes from the Lord. Today, there is so much hatred against Christ Jesus, the only bearer of light in the world, as to want to exclude him from the world. There is so much hatred against the Church as to want to eliminate her from the face of the earth. The Pharisees have so much hatred against Jesus as to want to deny such an obvious miracle. They do not investigate to discover the truth, but to find a weak point in the story that allows them to deny what has happened. But the more they investigate, the more the truth grows before their eyes. They can say what they want, but the fact remains that before the man was blind and now he sees. An undeniable truth. A story that nobody can obscure. This is the power of truth.

As he passed by he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that the works of God might be made visible through him. We have to do the works of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and smeared the clay on his eyes, and said to him, “Go wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed, and came back able to see. His neighbors and those who had seen him earlier as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the one who used to sit and beg?” Some said, “It is,” but others said, “No, he just looks like him.” He said, “I am.” So they said to him, “(So) how were your eyes opened?” He replied, “The man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went there and washed and was able to see.” And they said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I don’t know.”They brought the one who was once blind to the Pharisees. Now Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes on a Sabbath. So then the Pharisees also asked him how he was able to see. He said to them, “He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.” So some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath.” (But) others said, “How can a sinful man do such signs?” And there was a division among them. So they said to the blind man again, “What do you have to say about him, since he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”

So a second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, “Give God the praise! We know that this man is a sinner.” He replied, “If he is a sinner, I do not know. One thing I do know is that I was blind and now I see.” So they said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” He answered them, “I told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples, too?” They ridiculed him and said, “You are that man’s disciple; we are disciples of Moses! We know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this one is from.” The man answered and said to them, “This is what is so amazing, that you do not know where he is from, yet he opened my eyes. We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if one is devout and does his will, he listens to him. It is unheard of that anyone ever opened the eyes of a person born blind. If this man were not from God, he would not be able to do anything.” They answered and said to him, “You were born totally in sin, and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out. When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, he found him and said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” He answered and said, “Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” Jesus said to him, “You have seen him and the one speaking with you is he.” He said, “I do believe, Lord,” and he worshiped him.

It is not enough to receive the light and not even to confess that he who healed us was Jesus. Jesus gives us the sight so that we can walk behind Him. It is useless to receive the sight, if we then persevere on the streets of darkness and non-light. It would have been better to remain blind forever. Today this is the Christian evil. He does not even approach the sacraments to have light anymore. He approaches with the will to remain in darkness. Not only does he perform a vain work. He exposes the sacrament to vanity and sacrilege.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints arrange that we can always follow the Lord Jesus.