4th Lent A 2008.
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To begin with this Gospel is a very puzzling story. We have a joyous event, a great event, a miraculous event, a blind man is given sight - and people are not happy, they do not rejoice. They question the means, the method and the day of the week on which the cure took place but they do not share the joy of the cured man. They are separated from this man. Instead of rejoicing with him they report him to the law, take him to the police. The men of the law say that this event, this magnificent event is against the law of God.
It was done on the wrong day.
We can stop and ask what kind of a God would bring in laws against healing the sick; to go to the aid of the needy at any time? It is certainly not the God of the Jews, not our God. Theirs is a misrepresentation of God and his laws.
And the first warning that comes to us from this story is that we must not follow anybody’s interpretation of God BLINDLY. We, every one of us have free access to God, we can read his words in scripture, form a relationship with him in prayer
and have our consciences to listen to. We can to trust ourselves.
The Church gives us a framework for living in harmony with God but we are responsible for our lives, we are responsible for what we do
and how we do it.
St Paul in the second reading said: "Try to discover what the Lord wants of you!”
"having nothing to do with the futile works darkness”.
A darkness that is brought about by either misinformation or lack of knowledge.
God wants our love and knowledge of him.
This is what we need.
We don’t need to be victims of misinformation
lke many people were at the time of Jesus
and we don’t need to be blind people either.
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