Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me!

19 NOVEMBER (Lk 18,35-43)

The Lord is a powerful Creator, Saviour of the souls of his faithful. Nothing is impossible for him. He can heal man from all sickness, suffering, poverty, misery, both spiritual and physical. There is no human sadness from which he cannot make one retrieve.

Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! I will praise the LORD while I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. Do not trust in princes, In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation. His spirit departs, he returns to the earth; In that very day his thoughts perish. How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope is in the LORD his God, Who made heaven and earth, The sea and all that is in them; Who keeps faith forever; Who executes justice for the oppressed; Who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free. The LORD opens the eyes of the blind; The LORD raises up those who are bowed down; The LORD loves the righteous; The LORD protects the strangers; He supports the fatherless and the widow, But He thwarts the way of the wicked. The LORD will reign forever, Your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD! (Psalm 146 (145) 1-10).

God gives his anointed all his divine power. All that is of God is of his Messiah. This works with his same omnipotence. Nothing is impossible for him. He says things happen and with the same speed with which creation obeys its God.

Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one with whom I am pleased, Upon whom I have put my spirit; he shall bring forth justice to the nations, Not crying out, not shouting, not making his voice heard in the street. A bruised reed he shall not break, and a smoldering wick he shall not quench, Until he establishes justice on the earth; the coastlands will wait for his teaching. Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spreads out the earth with its crops, Who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk on it: I, the Lord, have called you for the victory of justice, I have grasped you by the hand; I formed you, and set you as a covenant of the people, a light for the nations, To open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from confinement, and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness. I am the Lord, this is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to idols. See, the earlier things have come to pass, new ones I now foretell; Before they spring into being, I announce them to you. Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the end of the earth: Let the sea and what fills it resound, the coastlands, and those who dwell in them.(Is 42.1-10).

Today, Jesus is invoked by a blind man who is begging along the road to Jericho. This man asks Jesus nothing but to be also the Messiah for him. He begs him to manifest on him that divine power which the Lord granted him.

Now as he approached Jericho a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging, and hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what was happening. They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.” He shouted, “Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me!” The people walking in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent, but he kept calling out all the more, “Son of David, have pity on me!” Then Jesus stopped and ordered that he be brought to him; and when he came near, Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” He replied, “Lord, please let me see.” Jesus told him, “Have sight; your faith has saved you.” He immediately received his sight and followed him, giving glory to God. When they saw this, all the people gave praise to God.

When can Jesus work on us with the omnipotence of his word, with the power of the Holy Spirit to perform miracles and wonders? When we manifest him all our faith. When we believe that He really is the plenipotentiary of the Father. Without this most pure faith, if He is simply seen as a person in all similar to us, never might he in this case be able to operate according to the fullness of the power that dwells in him; and we remain in our weakness, poverty and disease. The belief in his truth is essential for the miracle to be fulfilled. We acknowledge and confess Jesus Christ in truth and He works with us in the fullness of his truth. The salvation that He gives us is not only physical, but spiritual as well. The whole man is healed, cured, brought back by him, to his truth. From the truth of Christ derives our truth.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints give us this powerful faith.