Parole inattendue Eugénie Bastié, journaliste

Friends, on this fourth Sunday of Lent, our Gospel is one of the most magnificent stories in the Gospel of John: the healing of the man born blind. John is a theological master, of course, but also a literary master, and this story is beautifully crafted as a sort of icon of t ...

John 9. Not everyone who encountered Jesus believed in Him. More than opening a blind man’s physical eyes, Jesus opened his spiritual eyes to see that He really was the Son of God, the Messiah, come to save the world. The pharisees simply could not get past their own pride. They ...  Show more

Friends, in today’s Gospel, we hear the marvelous story of the healing of blind Bartimaeus—an icon of tremendous power and a sacred picture of the spiritual life and the process of salvation. We all find ourselves, in our need of Christ, in this image, as our own blindness dis ...

The great Lenten readings for Cycle A move in a kind of crescendo from thirst, to blindness, to death—all metaphors for spiritual dysfunction. This Sunday’s Gospel deals with death through the story of Lazarus who, after four days in his tomb, represents someone who is totally ...