Sunday March 15th: I am the light of the world

Jesus answered, ‘he was born blind so that the works of God might be displayed in him.’

John 9: 1 – 41

Blindness prevents us from seeing the beauty of creation in all its various forms. We are also blinded by sins of lust, gluttony, pride, sloth, wrath, greed, and envy. Sin clouds the mind in moral confusion; it grows in darkness and resists the light of God’s truth.

When the disciples saw a man who had been born blind from birth, they asked Jesus who had sinned – the man or his parents. Jesus answered, ‘ He was born blind so that the works of God might be displayed in him.’

Jesus, the light of the world, came to rescue us from our blindness. Like the blind man in the gospel passage, we need the light of Jesus to come into our lives. Some sacraments in which we meet Jesus are Baptism and Reconciliation.

We pray to recognize God’s action in our lives. Let us kneel before the cross and pray: “I adore you, Jesus, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. Let me receive my sight.”