17/11/2025

Monday Week 33 in Ordinary Time

Today Jesus responds to all of us who in various degrees of blindness sit by the roadside that is our present moment in the reality of our lives and call out to him. 

There are many of us for whom the layers of blindness that is "This World" are too thick and comforting for our  awareness of being, that is also our inner eye, to be conscious that the "Son of David" is both never far from us and also, always asks what it is that we want from him.

In the first reading many of the Jews ruled by heirs of Alexander had allowed themselves to become blinded by the worldly allure and comfort of Hellenism. Many had welcomed  the deification of the human form, the cultural pride and the military success that were epitomised in Alexander and were the the source of human glory and of non-existent gods.

For some of them, however, the inner eye that sees the WORD, Christ light of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, was not completely clouded and those "Sons of David" who were able to remember the promise made to that king succeeded in rededicating their Temple and Nation to our God.

When I choose to remain in sin rather than seek the forgiveness that is the free-gift  of Our Father, I begin the self-blinding process that becomes layers upon layers of mere superficialities that become, however, dense enough to prevent my inner eye truly recognising the "Son of David" and responding to his presence.

We have to be so careful in our lives as these layers of blindness are not only physical and obviously sinful but can also be religious even spiritual. 

Dear Lord, help me to find a place no higher than  the roadside where you pass by for "Blessed are the poor in Spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven". Amen