In the Gospel, two men come up to Jesus and ask him to have pity on them and to grant them sight.
And our Lord asks them if they believe that he could do it, and they said, yes, Lord.
They do.
And so he just touched their eyes and they could see because they had that faith in Jesus.
So this blindness and sight is physical blindness, of course, is always a powerful symbol of the spiritual blindness we can have.
And the sight that Jesus gives us is the symbol of the sight of faith that we can have in Jesus.
And blindness and sight are a powerful reality in our Christian life and in our spiritual life.
We can see that when we are caught up in anger or caught up in lack of charity or caught up in pride or worldliness or a lack of faith and living according to the senses,
we can see the blindness that comes over us, the darkness that comes over us that we can't see, can't understand.
And we can't understand the meaning.
We can't understand the meaning and the purpose and the reason why things are the way they are because there's that blindness.
And it is our Lord that lifts that blindness, lifts that darkness away from us and takes that veil and takes it away.
And, of course, in this Advent season, we are getting close to the light, getting close to our salvation,
getting closer and closer as Christmas approaches to that light symbolically.
And, of course, the closer we are to Jesus, the more we see things.
Clearly, the way they should be, the way they are in the sight of God, which is the truth, which is true reality.
The more united we are with Jesus and his teachings in the gospel and a life of prayer and humility and charity,
the more we see things the way they really are in the true light of reality.
And so we want to see things clearly.
And that takes deep prayer.
A prayer life, a life of meditation, and as perfect as we can, observance of the teachings of Jesus.
And, again, love, humility, faith, prayer, these things bring us light and bring us out of our darkness and blindness.
And we need to teach that to the world because we are all, of course, born into this fallen nature,
this fallen nature, this blindness that is innate in our fallen nature.
And we have to peel it away and help others to peel it away from their eyes, their spiritual eyes,
and live in the light of Christ, live in the light of the truth,
in the light of that hope that comes with faith in Jesus and loving Jesus.
Love covers a multitude of sins, and it covers a multitude of darkness as well.
And lack of charity blinds us to the goodness in others and to the goodness in others.
And the actions that we want to perform, those good actions.
So let us live in love.
Let us live in faith and humility, deep humility,
and awareness of the truth that God is everything.
God gives us the power to do everything, the goodness, the ability to do good, and charity.
So let us live in that faith and that light that Jesus brings us through the Gospels and through prayer and through charity.
Let us live in that faith and that light that Jesus brings us through the Gospels and through prayer and through charity.
Let us live in that faith and that light that Jesus brings us through the Gospels and through charity.
Let us live in that faith and that light that Jesus brings us through the Gospels and through charity.