According to Our Faith (Completed)

The Year of Faith begun on October 11th is approaching the two month mark as we move toward the end of the First Week of Advent.  Appropriately, being healed from blindness is the theme of today's readings for the Liturgy.  Isaiah writes, "Out of gloom and darkness,/ the eyes of the blind shall see."  (Is 29: 18)  and in the Gospel, two blind me cry out for healing. Jesus asks the telling question, "Do you believe that I can do this?"  "Yes, Lord,", they answer.  Jesus touches their eyes and says, "Let it be done for you according to your faith." (cf Mt 9: 27-31).  Evidently their faith even in approaching Jesus to ask, is strong enough, and they are healed.
God does not want us to walk in darkness, rather, he wants to touch and open our eyes, but our faith must come first. Admittedly, our faith is weak and needs strengthening.  That's what Advent and the Year of Faith are for.  By reflecting on the events of the First Coming of Jesus, we can be better prepared for our personal meeting with him at the hour of our death, and for his Second Coming at the end of time.  If we can humbly join with the shepherds in their belief in and worship of a little child, thus accepting that if God can become human, then anything is possible, even with us. How different would our lives be if lived every moment in this framework.  How different would our world be.  There would have been no Pearl Harbor, nor would there be a looming "fiscal cliff."  "Son of David, have pity on us (Mt 9:27) that we may see."
Bro. Rene