with Fr. Peter Kavanaugh
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”
The man was blind. A thick blackness engulfed everything. His life was an endless reach, feeling, grasping for some comprehension of a world otherwise dark and empty. Then he heard it, a whisper maybe, a murmur in the crowd that Jesus was coming. If anyone could save him it was this man. So he called out. Immediately, the crowd pushed around him.
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“He marvelled and said to those who followed him, ‘Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith.”
What is faith that makes God marvel? “Faith is power for salvation and strength to eternal life,” St. Clement taught. An American poet writes, “Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above.” Isaiah professes that the faithful are “those who will dwell on the heights, whose refuge will be the mountain fortress…your eyes will see the king in his beauty and view a land that stretches far” (33:16-17). Some people think faith is blindness, but it is the very opposite. Faith is what opens our eyes. Consider this, “Your eyes will see the king in his beauty.” This is not just a prophecy of the afterlife. It’s about our lives here and now. As our hearts fill up with faith, our ability see around us becomes clearer. With faith, our eyes open to reality.
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