“Have pity on me”, says the blind man.  “What do you want me to do for you” says Jesus?  “I want to see” replies the blind man (Mk 10:45-52).  Do we ever cry out in prayer, ‘I want to see’?  Do we ever wonder if I am seeing with the ‘light’ of Christ?  Do we […]

How does Jesus see?  How do we see?  In an essay titled, Person to Person: Becoming Present by Barbara Newman she writes: “I do not think we can see with God’s eyes until, at least once, we have had the experience of being seen with them.  If we are lucky, that happens in ordinary human […]

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