Remove that blindness!

Wednesday of week 6 in Ordinary Time

Mark 8:22-26

Think of every kind of blindness we can think of - physical blindness, emotional, psychological, social, and spiritual blindness.  They're all reflected in the readings for today.  From physical blindness, emotional blindness is cured when we would "be quick to listen but slow to speak and slow to rouse your temper"; pyschological blindness would be like "like looking at your own features in a mirror and then, after a quick look, going off and immediately forgetting what you looked like"; curing social blindness in "coming to the help of orphans and widows when they need it"; and spiritual blindness from being "religious while he still goes on deceiving himself and not keeping control over his tongue".

 Jesus cured the blind man by means of:

 1. touching him - the importance of reaching out to the sick through the power of caring touch;

 2. seeing him - the first thing  the blind saw was him; the ability to see Jesus in his entirety - his love, his wisdom, his emotions, and his saving power: 

 3. and following what he commands - "Do not go back to the village" as said in the gospel with a parrallel instruction from St. James, "keeping oneself uncontaminated by the world."


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