Imagine
someone who dreams to be a medical doctor but does not study at all! It is very
clear that the dream might not be realized. So, whenever we aspire something,
extra effort is needed. In today`s Gospel Matthew presents to us a scenario of
two blind men who shout at top of their voices to Jesus asking for forgiveness.
This explains how sicknesses were understood in the Jewish context (most of the
diseases in Jewish understanding were immediate consequence of sin). Therefore,
crying out as presented in the Gospel shows the desperate situation these
people were passing through and how much they needed healing because blindness was a very
terrible condition and among the worst of its negative effects was that there
was very little or even no work available for the blind to
do in order to sustain themselves. Leviticus 21:18-23 lists forbidden defects
that prevent a man from approaching the altar or offerings to the Lord and blindness
is the first to be named. Without work, blind men were often
reduced to roadside beggars.
The start of this encounter is in
public. There are crowds round Jesus, and the blind men are caught up in the
general emotion. Jesus waits until he is in the house, where he can meet the
blind men in person, and question their faith.
No one is perfect, each one of us in
one way or another is blind. The blindness presented here is a symbol of
ignorance. And Rev. Fr. Marandu will define ignorance as a lack of
knowledge which was not supposed to there considering the age. Most of the
times we fail to recognize our spiritual ignorance. He needs us not as a group
but as individual to present to him our weaknesses. But the question which each
of us can ponder is: do we believe in Jesus? So, let us pray that God may
increase our faith!
Geremias Armando Carlos
III Year Theology
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