Word to the Wise
Thursday, May 26, 2016 - Thursday in the 8th Week in Ordinary Time
[1 Pet 2:2-5, 9-12 and Mark 10:46-52]"What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man replied to him, "Master, I want to see." Jesus told him, "Go your way; your faith has saved you." Immeddioately he received his sight and followed him on the way." [Mark]
THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2016 ST. PHILIP NERI, C.O.
Faith is where you find it, and not necessarily where we think it is or ought to be. The crowd around Jesus is fickle. They try to silence Bartimaeus until Jesus say, "Call him." Then they are enthused and say, "Take courage; get up, Jesus is calling you." Jesus recognizes faith, but the crowd is so focused on "following" Jesus that they exclude the blind beggar.
The transformation in the attitude of the crowd seems to me to be what Pope Francis is trying to accomplish in our Church. He wants us all to look for the blind beggars, not exclude them. Bartimaeus was really the one who could "see" with the eyes of faith. The crowd, in its group blindness, saw him as a nuisance. Pope Francis nis asking us all to be missionaries of mercy and to say to anyone calling out, "Take courage; get up, Jesus is calling you." It may be that we could put ourselves in the place of Bartimaeus and hear that wonderful question from Jesus, "What do you want me to do for you?" I hope all of us will answer the same way Bartimaeus did, "Master, I want to see." AMEN
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