March 21, 2020

4th Sunday of Lent - A (March 22, 2020)


Jesus Sought Us Out

“As Jesus passed by he saw a man blind from birth.”
The man did not ask Jesus to heal him.  Nor did anybody else do so on the man’s behalf.

Jesus reached out to the man in need and healed him. 

At the end of the Gospel passage, “when Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, he found him.”  The verb here could mean that Jesus came across the man (by chance).  It could also be translated as Jesus sought him out. 

That Jesus took the initiative to heal the man, and what Jesus would say next indicate that Jesus sought him out.  “I came so that those who do not see might see.”

In these days of anxiety and much suffering, may we be more aware and believe that Jesus knows our sufferings and our needs.  May we believe that he always reaches out and heals us.   

Image:  El Greco, Healing of the Man Born Blind, wikipedia.org

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