Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- Blind to His Miracles

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 02.16.22 | Aux. Bishop R. Barron

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Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

Mark 8:22-26

Friends, today’s Gospel records Jesus healing a blind man at Bethsaida. That Jesus was a wonderworker is taken for granted in the Gospels.
Along with his preaching and his death on the cross, his working of miracles is one of the surest and most basic things we know about him.

He preached in order to share the truth of God’s kingdom; he went to the cross in order to demonstrate the range of the divine love;
he worked miracles because he was the embodiment of Yahweh’s desire to save his people.

Listen to the words of the prophet Isaiah: "Here is your God, he comes with vindication; with divine recompense he comes to save you.
Then the eyes of the blind shall see, and the ears of the deaf be opened; then the lame shall leap like a stag, and the mute tongue sing for joy."

These are tremendous words, expressive of Israel’s hope in the saving God. God intends life and abundant life for his people, and he is impatient with a world gone wrong.
He longs to set it right, to recreate what sin and fear and death have uncreated.

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+++ When Jesus and his disciples
arrived at Bethsaida,
people brought to him a blind man
and begged Jesus to touch him.
He took the blind man by the hand
and led him outside the village.
Putting spittle on his eyes he laid
his hands on the man and asked,
“Do you see anything?”
Looking up the man replied, “I see
people looking like trees and
walking.”
Then he laid hands on the man’s eyes
a second time and he saw clearly;
his sight was restored and he could
see everything distinctly.
Then he sent him home and said,

“Do not even go into the village.”
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