Lord, that I may see again

WORD 2day: Monday, 33rd week in Ordinary time

November 14, 2022: Revelation 1:1-4, 2:1-5; Luke 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, very many times on our spiritual journey... just imagine the day of our first communion, for some others that of confirmation, for still others the day of their religious consecration, for many others the day of your wedding... how well and with what spirits we began it all! 

But in a short while the energy drains, the spirit goes faint and a mere good will becomes drastically insufficient. The reason if we analyse it carefully: we are not attentive enough to note the initial changes that happen in our life and experience... we remain so insensitive to what is happening within us that we are caught unawares at much crucial time. That is why the important 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, needless critiques, personal attacks, childish complaints and compromises against true love: these are the blindnesses that set in, if we are not careful or attentive! We become so blind that we do not even realise what sad levels we tend to reach in our life. We are blissfully unware at times how inhuman we grow, leave alone the talk of becoming unholy! 

Doubtlessly, at these moments, it is the Lord alone who can restore the original spirit by enabling us to see... empowering us to realise and restart... "to 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: Grant Lord, that I may see again!