WORD 2day: 17th November, 2014
Lord, that I may see again!
Rev 1:1-4, 2:1-5; Lk 18: 35-43
Repent and get back to your original ways, invites the first reading today. With a plenty of good will and an abundance of spirit we begin something new and good... just imagìne the day of our first communion, for some confirmation, for some others the day of religious consecration and for others the day of your wedding! But in a short while the energy drains, the spirit goes faint and a mere good will becomes drastically insufficient. The reason: we are not attentive enough to note the initial changes that happen...we remain so insensitive to what is happening within us that we are caught unawares at much crucial time. That is why the prayer today: "Lord grant that we may see again!" (Cf. Lk 18:41).
Staying in touch with the Lord keeps us in touch with ourselves, to constantly check our pride, insensitivities, arrogance, unforgiving attitude, judgmental tendencies, loose talks and compromises against true love: these are the blindnesses that set in! We become so blind that we do not even realise what sad levels we have reached. And it is the Lord alone who can restore the original spirit by enabling us to see... empowering us to realise and restart... "make us see again!" We are reaching the end of this liturgical year...and it is time now that each of us make it our prayer: Lord, that I may see again!