Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Our Light and Salvation: Daily Mass Homily--Friday, December 6th, 2013


            Many of us last night lost power for a bit.  It made me count my blessings as I fumbled around through the dark rectory before finding a flashlight.  And even then it was difficult to see.  At one point I remember thinking to myself, “What if I was blind and lived like this all the time?”
            Darkness was the reality for the two blind men in the Gospel.  They cried out, “Son of David, have pity on us!”  Jesus, fulfilling the prophecy in Isaiah—“And out of gloom and darkness, the eyes of the blind shall see…”—cures them both. 
            In so doing Jesus proves to be literally our "light and our salvation".

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