Today the Gospel reading has this aspect of blindness. A man born blind and the people who had sight and were also blind. It is a contradiction, and yet that is what it is. In the Gospel we heard Jesus met a man born blind and He cured him. Having cured the man, this controversy came up. That the man born blind had to walk about and to live the new life he had. The Jewish leaders, the Pharisees were really very much concerned.
The man must be a sinner, that is why he was born blind. The one who cured him on the Sabbath day was a sinner because he did not keep the law of the Sabbath. Yet it is not just physical blindness that is the issue, it's our spiritual blindness that we are talking about today. These texts were chosen because of the Scrutinies for the young people who are being welcomed into the Church so that they will receive Baptism at Easter. Yet they are also very good for us to remind us over and over again, that we are so used to the tradition of our Church, to the ways we do things, at a point that we fail to realize that we are going wrong. Are we blind here? No. Yet in some aspects of our lives we are blind.
