Living This Week’s Gospel: 

John 9:1–41

In last Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus gives sight to a beggar man who has been blind since birth. But even after his blindness is cured, the man in the story is not sure that Jesus is the Messiah … until Jesus tells him plainly at the end of the parable!

When the Pharisees question the man, he tells them that Jesus must be a prophet, that such a miracle could not be possible without God’s will. The blind man does not understand this miracle, and he does not know who Jesus is, yet he attributes this act entirely to God!

We pray that, though we may be unsure about God’s plan for us or for the world, we remain open to his works and attribute them to him. This openness to God’s glory is the true “sight” Jesus speaks of when he says, “I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see might see.” Through his Crucifixion and Resurrection, Jesus brings this clear vision of God’s glory to those whose eyes have been previously closed to it; this is the mercy he offers to us!