HOMILY FOR THE 23RD FRIDAY ORDINARY TIME: YEAR A
HOMILY FOR THE 23RD FRIDAY IN ORDINARY TIME: YEAR A
HOMILY THEME: OVERCOMING THE BLIND SPOTS
BY: Fr Isaac Awe
Are we clear-sighted, especially in our perception of sin and the need for each of us to see ourselves correctly as God sees us – with our faults, weaknesses, and strengths? Jesus’ two parables about poor vision allude to the proverb: Without vision the people perish! (Proverbs 29:18) What can we learn from the illustration of a blind guide and a bad eye (the log in the eye)?
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A bad eye left untreated and a blind guide can cause a lot of trouble that will only end in misery and disaster for us! We can only help and teach others what we have learned and received from wise teachers and guides. And how can we help others overcome their faults if we are blinded by our own faults and misperceptions? We are all in need of a physician who can help us overcome the blind spots and failing of our own sins, weaknesses, and ignorance.
Like a gentle and skilful doctor, the Lord Jesus exposes the cancer of sin, evil, and oppression in our lives so we can be set free and restored to wholeness. A key step to healing and restoration requires that we first submit to the physician who can heal us. The Lord Jesus is our great Physician because he heals the whole person – soul and body, mind and heart – and restores us to abundant life both now and for the age to come in his everlasting kingdom.
PRAYER: “O Father, give us the humility which realizes its ignorance, admits its mistakes, recognizes its need, welcomes advice, accepts rebuke. Help us always to praise rather than to criticize, to sympathize rather than to discourage, to build rather than to destroy, and to think of people at their best rather than at their worst. Amen
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