The Catholic Calendar for Monday, November 20, 2000
The Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time
Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:
Revelation 1:1-4,2:2-15
Psalm 1:1-4,6
Luke 18:35-43
Full text: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/index.htm
A reflection on today's Scripture:
In the Gospel today, we see that Jesus in his divinity and in the
divine plan of salvation came into the presence of a blind man
begging. In those times sickness was considered to be a result of
either one's own sin or that of a parent's sin. As such the man was
looked down upon by the priests and probably by his neighbors, too.
This is why the blind man, knowing Jesus was the Messiah, begged for
mercy, pleaded for attention from Jesus.
In His merciful cure of that blind outcast of humanity, Jesus wanted
us to see ourselves as the real outcasts that we are. We know the
innocent beggar shouldn't be the one to be condemned by his
neighbors; it is we, with our multitude of sins, who should be crying
out to the Lord for mercy.
Oh, how blind we are to the "Son-Light" of Jesus who desires so
greatly to lovingly shine in to our hardened hearts. When will we
ever push aside our ugly selfishness so that we might see the divine
Light waiting for us? Just like the blind beggar, let us humbly
beseech the Lord to have pity on us.
O Jesus,
Meek and humble of heart,
Make our hearts like unto thine.
- Joachim, ocds
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