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Thursday, March 3, 2011
Thursday the 8th week of Ordinary Time

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Today's Commentary
Saint Gregory the Great: "He was shouting louder than ever"

readings of the day from 10.46 to 52 Mc

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Jesus and his disciples came to Jericho. And while he was leaving
Jericho with his disciples and a large crowd, a blind beggar, Bartimaeus
, the son of Timaeus, sat by the roadside.
heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry
"Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me! "Many people
rebuked for silence, but
shouted the louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me
! "
Jesus stops and says:" Call him. "We therefore call
the blind, and he said:" Trust, get up and he calls you
. "The blind
threw his cloak, jumped up and ran to Jesus.
Jesus said to him: "What do you want me to do for you? -
Rabboni, I see. "
And Jesus said to him:" Go, thy faith hath made thee whole. Immediately
man began to see, and he followed Jesus on the road.


From the Liturgical Translation of the Bible - © AELF, Paris



Today's Commentary

Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604), pope and doctor of the Church
Homilies on the Gospel , No. 2, PL 76, 1081 (trans. Luke commented, DDB, 1987, p. 141 rev.)

"He was shouting louder than ever"

Every man who knows the darkness that made him a
blind. .. screams with all his mind: "Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me
. But listen also what follows the screams of the blind man: "Those
marching in the head rebuked to silence him "(Lk
18.39). Who are they? They are there to represent the desires of our
condition in this world, griefers, the vices of man and
tumult, who, wishing to prevent the coming of Jesus in us, disturb our thinking
temptation to wreak and want to drown the voice of our heart in prayer
. Often, indeed, that our willingness to turn to God again ...
our effort to remove our sins by prayer,
be upset by their image: the vigilance of our mind relaxes to
contact with them, they throw confusion into our heart, they stifle
cry our prayer ...

So what did the blind man to receive light despite these obstacles
? "He shouted the louder, 'Son of David, have mercy on me!
'"... Yes, the tumult of our desires overwhelm us, the more we must make our
insistent prayer ... The voice of our heart is covered, it must insist
more vigorously, to cover the noise of
intrusive thoughts and touch the Lord's faithful ear.
everyone will recognize, I think, in this image : When we try to divert our
heart of this world to bring him back to God ... it is much
unwelcome burden on us and that we must fight. It
a swarm that God's desire is hard to avoid the eyes of our heart ... But persistent
strongly in prayer, we stop in our mind
Jesus passing. Hence the story of the Gospel: "Jesus stopped and ordered him
leads him" (v. 40).




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