Your faith has saved you

Sisters and brothers in Christ, how many times in our lives has Jesus reached out to us during times of difficulties and asked us, "“What do you want me to do for you?” And how many times have we responded to Christ's outreach to us with faith, trust and confidence like the blind man does in today's Gospel?

This past weekend, at the PreCana Marriage Preparation Retreat, we talked about the different types of prayers - adoration, blessing, praise, thanksgiving, intercession, and supplication/petition - with the couples discerning marriage. The blind man offers a prayer of supplication/petition that he sees again. The people who brought him to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ offer a prayer for intercession for the blind man.

Jesus responds to their prayers with love, mercy, and compassion; not only healing the blind man physically that he can see again, but healed him spiritually as well, saying: "Have sight; your faith has saved you." This is what awaits us when we pray and turn to God with humble and contrite hearts; our Lord is waiting for us, to heal us, to restore us to the best version of ourselves, the way He created us to be.

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Gospel of the Day

As Jesus approached Jericho

a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging,

and hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what was happening.

They told him,

“Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.”

He shouted, “Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me!”

The people walking in front rebuked him,

telling him to be silent,

but he kept calling out all the more,

“Son of David, have pity on me!”

Then Jesus stopped and ordered that he be brought to him;

and when he came near, Jesus asked him,

“What do you want me to do for you?”

He replied, “Lord, please let me see.”

Jesus told him, “Have sight; your faith has saved you.”

He immediately received his sight

and followed him, giving glory to God.

When they saw this, all the people gave praise to God.