{"id":18979,"date":"2020-03-22T08:38:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T12:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=18979"},"modified":"2020-03-22T08:38:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T12:38:07","slug":"seeing-in-the-light-of-christ-fourth-sunday-of-lent-a-march-22-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/seeing-in-the-light-of-christ-fourth-sunday-of-lent-a-march-22-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing in the Light of Christ, Fourth Sunday of Lent (A), March 22, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nFourth Sunday of Lent, Year A<br \/>\nMarch 20, 2020<br \/>\n1 Sam 16:1.6-7.10-13, Ps 23, Eph 5:8-14, Jn 9:1-41<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today\u2019s Gospel and homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-18979-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3.22.20-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3.22.20-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3.22.20-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In today\u2019s Gospel, something very different happens than in all the other miracles in which Jesus cured those who had no sight. First, unlike in all of the other cases, the blind man doesn\u2019t cry out for help. He\u2019s just there, along the road, and becomes the subject of a theological question from the disciples about the cause of his blindness. Jesus states that the reason that man was blind from birth was to allow God\u2019s works to show through him; his whole life in darkness until that point was so that he could encounter the saving power of Jesus and from that moment onward to be a tremendously conspicuous example of God\u2019s own light shining ever more brightly through him. That truth influences the way Jesus performs this miracle, because Jesus had two healings in mind \u2014 first a physical one for him and then a spiritual one for him and for us all.<\/li>\n<li>The Lord spits on the ground, makes mud with his saliva, and then goes up <i>unbidden<\/i> to the blind man and smears his eyes with mud. What must the blind man have been thinking? What would your reaction be, for example, if you were praying here with your eyes closed and someone else suddenly came up to you from behind and put muddy saliva on your eyelids? The blind man in the Gospel could have easily thought that someone was making fun of him or abusing him, as probably happened often. But the Lord is not done. Jesus then tells him to go to wash in the pool of Siloam. The blind man easily could have thought, \u201cWhat a stupid and pointless hassle! Make me dirty and then send me, who can\u2019t see, to wash in a pool, where I could easily fall in and drown.\u201d Jesus, however, must have given that command in a way that inspired trust. By his willingness to carry out this simple imperative Jesus gives him, the man embarks, without knowing it, on the great adventure of faith, on the exciting journey from darkness into light. Jesus allows this man, unlike the other blind men he cured \u2014 and this is the second difference from the other cures Jesus worked \u2014 to <i>participate actively in his own healing<\/i>, so that through the process, he might receive not just the ability to see the physical light of the world but also a much deeper light, the light of faith in Jesus, the true light of the world.<\/li>\n<li>Three-and-a-half weeks ago, Jesus did something to us similar to what he did to the man born blind in today\u2019s Gospel. We went up to someone acting in His Name, who smudged our foreheads not with muddy saliva but moistened ashes, and gave us a two-part command, the very same directive with which Jesus began His whole public ministry, \u201cRepent and believe in the Good News!\u201d This was Jesus\u2019 pathway for us to participate in our own healing during this blessed time of Lent, in our own coming from the darkness into the light of Christ, in our own exodus from sin to love, in our own Passover from death to life. We might have been tempted to consider this more or less an empty rite, something merely symbolic \u2014 especially if we are blind to our own sinfulness! \u2014\u00a0 but Jesus wanted to work in us during this time a true miracle of healing, through our participation and trust in this two-part therapeutic process.<\/li>\n<li>The pathway for the cure of our blindness begins with <i>repenting<\/i>, which means turning away from the life of sin that blinds us. As the Catechism and human experience teach so clearly, sin darkens the intellect and distorts the will so that often we can no longer even see the good clearly or easily choose it when we do see it. The repentance that is part of our cure means recognizing that sin has left us partially or totally sightless, that we\u2019re blind and that we need the Lord\u2019s help to see. This conversion means becoming aware, as St. Paul helped the Ephesians to see in today\u2019s second reading, that we have taken part in \u201cvain deeds done in darkness,\u201d and are called to \u201ccondemn them.\u201d God allows us to be smudged with ashes and sent on a spiritual journey to wash ourselves in the \u201csecond baptism\u201d of the Sacrament of Penance that begins the healing process, and in which we condemn ourselves for those vain, dark needs. At the end of that beautiful sacrament, God says to us, like he said through the St. Paul said in the second reading, \u201cAwake, O Sleeper, arise from the dead and Christ will give you light.\u201d We arise from the spiritual death and blindness of sin into the new light and life of Christ.<\/li>\n<li>The second stage in our cure, Jesus told us on Ash Wednesday, is <i>believing in the Good News<\/i>. Jesus says today to the man in the Gospel, \u201cDo you believe in the Son of Man?\u201d The physical cure of the man \u2014 a miracle that caused a tremendous stir among the people in Jerusalem and allowed God\u2019s works to shine in him \u2014 was merely a prelude to the spiritual cure of the man that would involve not just leaving darkness, but living in the Light of Christ. \u201cDo you believe in the Son of Man?\u201d The man responds with a faithful willingness, as well as a humble recognition that he needs help. \u201cWho is he, sir, that I may believe in him?\u201d \u201cYou have seen him,\u201d Jesus replies, \u201cand he is speaking to you now.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In the healing Jesus wants to carry out in us this Lent, he asks us the same question, \u201cDo you believe in the Son of Man?\u201d Jesus is the Gospel incarnate, and \u201c believing in the Good News\u201d means believing in Him. With similar humility to the man healed by Jesus in the Gospel we\u2019re called to say, \u201cShow me, Lord, that I may believe!\u201d With that docility, the Lord can then show us, in new and deeper ways, \u201cYou have seen him and he\u2019s speaking to you now.\u201d\u00a0To come to see Jesus anew, to hear him speak to us \u201cnow\u201d in every moment of our lives, to come to look on all things with the Light of Christ \u2014 that is the whole point of the Lenten adventure of faith. These forty days are a gift from God to help us to leave the darkness caused by sin and see Jesus and all things as they really are, as he himself sees them. So often we can think we see Jesus, we can think we hear his voice, but we can be blind and deaf to the true meaning of his presence. The Pharisees, after all, saw Jesus physically, but they never really saw who he was. They watched him perform many miracles, they heard his beautiful teachings and powerful responses to every attempt to trip him up, but still, when they looked at him, they were blind to the reality of his true identity. They thought they had him figured out, they thought they had all the answers, but they were blind. So often we can behave like they did, thinking we have Jesus all figured out, boxing him into an unimposing closet of our lives, categorizing him and his teachings in the way that will least challenge us to true conversion.\u00a0Seeing according to human perspectives rather than in God\u2019s light can happen even to great saints, as we see in today\u2019s first reading. The Prophet Samuel, one of the greatest men of God in the Old Testament, was sent to Bethlehem to anoint the son of Jesse whom God would indicate to be the King of Israel after Saul. When he arrived, he was convinced upon seeing Eliab that he was the one the Lord wanted anointed. But the Lord said to Samuel, \u201cDon\u2019t look on his appearance, for the Lord does not see as mortals see.\u201d The Lord would have him go through all of Jesse\u2019s sons until he would meet the youngest and ruddiest son, David who would become the great king and ancestor of the Lord Jesus according to the flesh. Even if we\u2019re close to the Lord, we, like Samuel, can see things too much by human categories rather than God\u2019s.\u00a0And if we\u2019re not really close to the Lord, there\u2019s the greater risk that we will go through life perceiving reality according to our darkness rather than according to God\u2019s Light. Rather than seeing things properly in faith, we can look at others, at events, and issues in the same way people <i>without faith<\/i> would. And then instead of walking and living as children of the light, as St. Paul summons the Ephesians and us today to do. Each Lent Jesus helps us to recognize, again, that our sins number us among the blind, but that he wants to cure us, to have us walk together with him in the light of life, to help us to see all things in and together with Him who is the Light of the World.<\/li>\n<li>At a practical level, how is our vision supposed to change this Lent? What does it mean to be cured by Christ of our spiritual blindness and to see things in his own light? In order for us to appreciate the <i>miracle<\/i> Christ wants to work in us this Lent, I\u2019d ask you first to think what it would have been like for that man born blind returning from the pool of Siloam. He had never seen anything, and now he could see everything. He could see colors. He could see the splendor of the temple. He could see where he was going. For the first time, he could see himself reflected in the pool. He could see the faces of those who were talking to him. He could see the face of Jesus. His whole life would have changed! <i>A similar change is meant to happen to us<\/i> when Christ heals our sight and helps us to see things with his light, to looking at everything through the lenses of faith, to see things as God sees them, and, therefore, to see all things accurately. Practically speaking, it means hearing Jesus say in the various events and people we encounter through the day, \u201cYou have seen him and he is speaking to you now.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Pope Francis spoke about the light Jesus gives us to see in his Angelus greeting this morning streamed on the internet from the library of the papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace. &#8220;At the heart of the liturgy of this fourth Sunday of Lent,&#8221; he said, &#8220;is the theme of light. The Gospel tells the episode of the man blind from birth, to whom Jesus restores his sight. This miraculous sign is the confirmation of the affirmation of Jesus who says of himself: &#8216;I am the light of the world,&#8217; the light that illuminates our darkness. This is who Jesus is. He enlightens on two levels: physical and spiritual: the blind man first receives the sight of the eyes and then is led to faith in the &#8216;Son of man&#8217; (v. 35), that is, in Jesus. It&#8217;s a whole journey. The doctors of the law \u2026 persist in refusing to acknowledge the miracle, and ask the healed man insidious questions. But he thwarts them with the force of reality: &#8216;One thing I know: I was blind and now I see it.&#8217; Between the distrust and hostility of those who surround him and question him incredulously, he charts an itinerary that gradually leads him to discover the identity of the One who opened his eyes and to confess faith in Him. At first he considers him a prophet; then he recognizes him as one who comes from God; finally he welcomes him as the Messiah and prostrates himself before him. He understood that by giving him the sight Jesus &#8216;manifested the works of God&#8217; (as Jesus said at the beginning of the passage was the reason why he had originally been born blind).\u00a0With the light of faith he who was blind discovers his new identity. He is now a &#8216;new creature,&#8217; able to see his life and the world around him in a new light, because he has entered into communion with Christ, he has entered another dimension. He is no longer a beggar marginalized by the community; he is no longer a slave to blindness and prejudice.&#8221; Then Pope Francis applies the lessons of this passage to us, saying, &#8220;The healed blind man, who now sees both with the eyes of the body and with those of the soul, is the image of every baptized person who, immersed in grace, has been torn from darkness and placed in the light of faith. But it is not enough to receive light, it is necessary to become light. Each of us is called to welcome the divine light to manifest it with our whole life. The first Christians, the theologians of the first centuries, said that the community of Christians, that is, the Church, is the &#8216;mystery of the moon,&#8217; because it gave light but was not its own light, it was the light it received from Christ. We too must be &#8216;mystery of the moon&#8217;: to give the light received from the sun, which is Christ, the Lord. \u2026 The seed of new life placed in us in Baptism is like the spark of a fire, which first of all purifies us, burning the evil we have in our hearts, and allowing us to shine and illuminate with the light of Jesus.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>During the time of the coronavirus, it is crucially important for us to see things with the light of faith, the light of Christ, and walk as children of the light. In the Responsorial Psalm, we prayed, &#8220;Even though I walk in the darkness of the valley of death, I fear no evil, for you are with me, with your rod and your staff, to comfort me.&#8221; Jesus is walking with us in this dark valley in which so many are suffering because of the virus, because of the fear associated with the virus, because of lack of ready access to the Sacraments, because of so many other associated issues. But Jesus has not abandoned us. He who walked through closed doors to enter the Upper Room can and wants to walk through our self-imposed quarantines. He wants to help us to see him present. He wants to help us to hear him saying, &#8220;I am speaking to you now!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>As we have the privilege to celebrate Mass today on this Christian Sabbath, called Laetare Sunday or &#8220;Sunday to Rejoice&#8221; \u2014\u00a0recognizing that the Lord worked most of his miracles of curing the blind on the Sabbath\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 we ask the Lord to remove the scales from our eyes, so that we can see everything with His own eyes in the light of faith. In a special way, though, we ask him to help us to see with his own eyes what is about to happen. If we could see the Mass as God sees it, we would never want it to end, because we\u2019re about to participate live in the Last Supper, in Jesus\u2019 own passion and death, and share right now on earth in his Resurrection as we receive His Risen Body. If Christ were to grant us his eyes, we would see all the angels and the saints about to hover around this altar. We would be able to recognize that we are about to share in the greatest event in all of history, the greatest love the world has ever seen or imagined, the deepest source of joy we could possibly ever have, the source of a joy the world cannot give nor take away. Jesus says to us here live, \u201cDo you believe in the Son of Man whom you have seen and who is speaking to you now,\u201d as he says \u201cThis is my body given for <i>you<\/i> \u2026 This is the chalice of my blood poured out for <i>you <\/i>for the forgiveness of your sins?\u201d Faced with these ineffable realities, may we take our cue from the <i>illuminated<\/i> man in the Gospel and say, with every fiber of our being, \u201cI do believe, Lord\u201d and bow down to worship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/1samuel\/16:1\">1 SM 16:1B, 6-7, 10-13A<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>The LORD said to Samuel:<br \/>\n\u201cFill your horn with oil, and be on your way.<br \/>\nI am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem,<br \/>\nfor I have chosen my king from among his sons.\u201d<br \/>\nAs Jesse and his sons came to the sacrifice,<br \/>\nSamuel looked at Eliab and thought,<br \/>\n\u201cSurely the LORD\u2019s anointed is here before him.\u201d<br \/>\nBut the LORD said to Samuel:<br \/>\n\u201cDo not judge from his appearance or from his lofty stature,<br \/>\nbecause I have rejected him.<br \/>\nNot as man sees does God see,<br \/>\nbecause man sees the appearance<br \/>\nbut the LORD looks into the heart.\u201d<br \/>\nIn the same way Jesse presented seven sons before Samuel,<br \/>\nbut Samuel said to Jesse,<br \/>\n\u201cThe LORD has not chosen any one of these.\u201d<br \/>\nThen Samuel asked Jesse,<br \/>\n\u201cAre these all the sons you have?\u201d<br \/>\nJesse replied,<br \/>\n\u201cThere is still the youngest, who is tending the sheep.\u201d<br \/>\nSamuel said to Jesse,<br \/>\n\u201cSend for him;<br \/>\nwe will not begin the sacrificial banquet until he arrives here.\u201d<br \/>\nJesse sent and had the young man brought to them.<br \/>\nHe was ruddy, a youth handsome to behold<br \/>\nand making a splendid appearance.<br \/>\nThe LORD said,<br \/>\n\u201cThere\u2014anoint him, for this is the one!\u201d<br \/>\nThen Samuel, with the horn of oil in hand,<br \/>\nanointed David in the presence of his brothers;<br \/>\nand from that day on, the spirit of the LORD rushed upon David.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/23:1\">PS 23:1-3A, 3B-4, 5, 6<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R\/ (1)\u00a0The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.<br \/>\nThe LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.<br \/>\nIn verdant pastures he gives me repose;<br \/>\nbeside restful waters he leads me;<br \/>\nhe refreshes my soul.<br \/>\nR\/\u00a0The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.<br \/>\nHe guides me in right paths<br \/>\nfor his name\u2019s sake.<br \/>\nEven though I walk in the dark valley<br \/>\nI fear no evil; for you are at my side<br \/>\nWith your rod and your staff<br \/>\nthat give me courage.<br \/>\nR\/\u00a0The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.<br \/>\nYou spread the table before me<br \/>\nin the sight of my foes;<br \/>\nyou anoint my head with oil;<br \/>\nmy cup overflows.<br \/>\nR\/\u00a0The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.<br \/>\nOnly goodness and kindness follow me<br \/>\nall the days of my life;<br \/>\nand I shall dwell in the house of the LORD<br \/>\nfor years to come.<br \/>\nR\/\u00a0The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Reading 2<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/ephesians\/5:8\">EPH 5:8-14<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Brothers and sisters:<br \/>\nYou were once darkness,<br \/>\nbut now you are light in the Lord.<br \/>\nLive as children of light,<br \/>\nfor light produces every kind of goodness<br \/>\nand righteousness and truth.<br \/>\nTry to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.<br \/>\nTake no part in the fruitless works of darkness;<br \/>\nrather expose them, for it is shameful even to mention<br \/>\nthe things done by them in secret;<br \/>\nbut everything exposed by the light becomes visible,<br \/>\nfor everything that becomes visible is light.<br \/>\nTherefore, it says:<br \/>\n\u201cAwake, O sleeper,<br \/>\nand arise from the dead,<br \/>\nand Christ will give you light.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/9:1\">JN 9:1-41<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>As Jesus passed by he saw a man blind from birth.<br \/>\nHis disciples asked him,<br \/>\n\u201cRabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents,<br \/>\nthat he was born blind?\u201d<br \/>\nJesus answered,<br \/>\n\u201cNeither he nor his parents sinned;<br \/>\nit is so that the works of God might be made visible through him.<br \/>\nWe have to do the works of the one who sent me while it is day.<br \/>\nNight is coming when no one can work.<br \/>\nWhile I am in the world, I am the light of the world.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen he had said this, he spat on the ground<br \/>\nand made clay with the saliva,<br \/>\nand smeared the clay on his eyes,<br \/>\nand said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cGo wash in the Pool of Siloam\u201d \u2014which means Sent\u2014.<br \/>\nSo he went and washed, and came back able to see.<\/p>\n<p>His neighbors and those who had seen him earlier as a beggar said,<br \/>\n\u201cIsn\u2019t this the one who used to sit and beg?\u201d<br \/>\nSome said, \u201cIt is, \u201c<br \/>\nbut others said, \u201cNo, he just looks like him.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said, \u201cI am.\u201d<br \/>\nSo they said to him, \u201cHow were your eyes opened?\u201d<br \/>\nHe replied,<br \/>\n\u201cThe man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes<br \/>\nand told me, \u2018Go to Siloam and wash.\u2019<br \/>\nSo I went there and washed and was able to see.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd they said to him, \u201cWhere is he?\u201d<br \/>\nHe said, \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They brought the one who was once blind to the Pharisees.<br \/>\nNow Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes on a sabbath.<br \/>\nSo then the Pharisees also asked him how he was able to see.<br \/>\nHe said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cHe put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.\u201d<br \/>\nSo some of the Pharisees said,<br \/>\n\u201cThis man is not from God,<br \/>\nbecause he does not keep the sabbath.\u201d<br \/>\nBut others said,<br \/>\n\u201cHow can a sinful man do such signs?\u201d<br \/>\nAnd there was a division among them.<br \/>\nSo they said to the blind man again,<br \/>\n\u201cWhat do you have to say about him,<br \/>\nsince he opened your eyes?\u201d<br \/>\nHe said, \u201cHe is a prophet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now the Jews did not believe<br \/>\nthat he had been blind and gained his sight<br \/>\nuntil they summoned the parents of the one who had gained his sight.<br \/>\nThey asked them,<br \/>\n\u201cIs this your son, who you say was born blind?<br \/>\nHow does he now see?\u201d<br \/>\nHis parents answered and said,<br \/>\n\u201cWe know that this is our son and that he was born blind.<br \/>\nWe do not know how he sees now,<br \/>\nnor do we know who opened his eyes.<br \/>\nAsk him, he is of age;<br \/>\nhe can speak for himself.\u201d<br \/>\nHis parents said this because they were afraid<br \/>\nof the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed<br \/>\nthat if anyone acknowledged him as the Christ,<br \/>\nhe would be expelled from the synagogue.<br \/>\nFor this reason his parents said,<br \/>\n\u201cHe is of age; question him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So a second time they called the man who had been blind<br \/>\nand said to him, \u201cGive God the praise!<br \/>\nWe know that this man is a sinner.\u201d<br \/>\nHe replied,<br \/>\n\u201cIf he is a sinner, I do not know.<br \/>\nOne thing I do know is that I was blind and now I see.\u201d<br \/>\nSo they said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cWhat did he do to you?<br \/>\nHow did he open your eyes?\u201d<br \/>\nHe answered them,<br \/>\n\u201cI told you already and you did not listen.<br \/>\nWhy do you want to hear it again?<br \/>\nDo you want to become his disciples, too?\u201d<br \/>\nThey ridiculed him and said,<br \/>\n\u201cYou are that man\u2019s disciple;<br \/>\nwe are disciples of Moses!<br \/>\nWe know that God spoke to Moses,<br \/>\nbut we do not know where this one is from.\u201d<br \/>\nThe man answered and said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cThis is what is so amazing,<br \/>\nthat you do not know where he is from, yet he opened my eyes.<br \/>\nWe know that God does not listen to sinners,<br \/>\nbut if one is devout and does his will, he listens to him.<br \/>\nIt is unheard of that anyone ever opened the eyes of a person born blind.<br \/>\nIf this man were not from God,<br \/>\nhe would not be able to do anything.\u201d<br \/>\nThey answered and said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cYou were born totally in sin,<br \/>\nand are you trying to teach us?\u201d<br \/>\nThen they threw him out.<\/p>\n<p>When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out,<br \/>\nhe found him and said, &#8220;Do you believe in the Son of Man?\u201d<br \/>\nHe answered and said,<br \/>\n\u201cWho is he, sir, that I may believe in him?\u201d<br \/>\nJesus said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cYou have seen him,<br \/>\nthe one speaking with you is he.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said,<br \/>\n\u201cI do believe, Lord,\u201d and he worshiped him.<br \/>\nThen Jesus said,<br \/>\n\u201cI came into this world for judgment,<br \/>\nso that those who do not see might see,<br \/>\nand those who do see might become blind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this<br \/>\nand said to him, \u201cSurely we are not also blind, are we?\u201d<br \/>\nJesus said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cIf you were blind, you would have no sin;<br \/>\nbut now you are saying, \u2018We see,\u2019 so your sin remains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/004-jesus-blind-man-pharisees.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18982\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/004-jesus-blind-man-pharisees.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/004-jesus-blind-man-pharisees.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/004-jesus-blind-man-pharisees.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/004-jesus-blind-man-pharisees.jpg?resize=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/004-jesus-blind-man-pharisees.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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