Friday - St. Francis Xavier - 29.17 to 24 Ps 26 Is Mt 9,27-31: Jesus heals two blind men who believe in him.
You open your eyes to blind
It seems to me that the liturgy of the Word of today shows two things, possibly conflicting with each other: The redness of Israel before the other peoples and the desire of light in two blind men of the gospel. We read in Isaiah: "From now on, Jacob shall not be ashamed." Yet the people jew is in truth, worship the true God, and he followed and protected. But when he turns away from His commandments, then it becomes the slave of his enemies. In their misfortune have the blush and shame, not so much because their God was won by the gods of the peoples enemy, as was believed at the time, as because their costumes did not comply with the covenant of their God when the people you convert, the intervention of the God of Abraham will change its future, and will also feared by enemies. In terms of human respect or shame us Catholics, believers in the true God, perhaps claim the distinction. We are in truth, we worship the true God, we have been redeemed by the blood of the Lord: we have every reason to count ourselves fortunate, without our merit, yet we remain timid and ashamed, like Peter who denies the Master before a high priest's servant, while those who propagate the error, the shameless lies. We really miss the courage of the martyrs, the gift of the Spirit, but also the result of a conviction. We should pray more light for our spiritual life. Sometimes we are blinded by our pride, fear of being mocked, because we are disciples of a crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles. We cry out to Jesus as the two ends to spare us and ripetiamogli with faith that he can heal us of our inadequacies, our infidelity. He will say to us is done as per your request: then we will acquire the wisdom that comes from the fact that we will look in their essence, we get the fortitude of the martyrs and confessors of the faith, we will have a burning desire to proclaim Christ everywhere Saviour of the world. Repeat the rooftops as the Spirit of the Lord has made known the secret of the heart. The example of St. Francis Xavier, whose liturgical memory we celebrate today, we encourage and spur us to cultivate the missionary spirit that belongs to every believer.
Newspaper "In His Image" - comment by Msgr. Francesco Ruppi
The miracle of healing the blind is truly exemplary, indeed, symbolic, because the Lord confirms the close link between the miracle and faith: that is, if there is faith, the Son the miracle of God, but if there is no faith, as happened on Friday morning before the king Herod, the miracle of God does not do it. For this reason, the blind screaming: "Son of David, have mercy on us," Jesus asks: "Do you that can do this?". To answer yes, the eyes of the blind are opened and the miracle actually takes place. Jesus advised not to disclose the miracle, why not walk him a reputation as a healer, but they, wherever they went, they spoke of what he had done no miracle Jesus ever pass over in silence and then she had never seen that a man opened his eyes to a blind man has never seen in Israel, people say something like, "but meet the Pharisees that Jesus does the work of demons. More ridiculous than that, you die!
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