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DESCRIPTION:SEE YOUR FAITH HAS SAVED YOU\nFrom a homily by St Gregory the Great 2\n◊◊◊\nAnd it came to pass\, as Jesus was approaching Jericho\, that a blind man was\nsitting by the roadside and begging… Jesus\, stopping\, asked him “What do you\nwant me to do for you?” He answered\, “Lord\, let me see!”… \nBut let us listen to what happened while the blind man shouted\, “Those who\nwalked before reprimanded him to silence him.” What do those who precede the\narrival of Jesus represent\, if not the crowd of carnal desires and the tempest of\nvices\, who\, before the coming of Jesus in our heart\, dispel our thoughts by their\nassaults and hinder the calls of our prayer? Often\, indeed\, when we want to return\nto the Lord after sinning\, and strive to overcome…the vices of which we have been\nguilty\, the images of our past faults are pressed into our hearts; they blunt the tip\nof our mind\, disturb our soul and stifle the voice of our prayer. Yes\, “those who\nwalked before reprimanded him to silence him\,” since before the coming of Jesus\ninto our hearts\, our past faults\, whose memory strikes our thought\, throw us into\ntrouble in the midst of our prayer. \nLet’s hear what the blind man did then\, before finding the light again… “He\ncried out\,” Son of David\, have mercy on me!” See\, he whom the crowd reprimands\nin order to silence him cries again and again; it is thus that the more the storm of\ncarnal thoughts torments us\, the more we must intensify our prayer… The crowd\nwants to prevent us from shouting\, since we often suffer even in prayer the\nharassing memory of our sins. But it is necessary that the voice of our heart\npersists with all the more force that the resistance which it meets is harder\, in\norder to control the storm of our guilty thoughts\, and to touch\, by the very excess\nof its importunity\, the merciful ears of the Lord… When we turn our minds from\nthis world to turn to God\, and apply ourselves to prayer… we endure prayer as an\nunwelcome and painful thing\, the very thing we had done with delight… \nBut if we persevere insistently in our prayer\, we stop in our soul Jesus who\npasses… Indeed\, as long as the crowds of images oppress us in prayer\, we have the\nimpression that Jesus is passing; but when we persevere insistently in our prayer\,\nJesus stops to give us light\, since God is fixed in our heart\, and the lost light is\nrestored to us… \nLet us also notice what he says to the blind man who approaches: “What do\nyou want me to do for you?”… He wants us to ask for things\, although in advance\nhe knows we will ask for them and he will give them to us. He exhorts us to pray\nto the point of being unwelcome\, who says\, however\, “Your heavenly Father knows\nwhat you need before you ask him”… So the blind man immediately adds\, “Lord\,\nlet me see!” What the blind man asks of the Lord is not gold\, but light. He does not\ncare to ask anything other than light\, for even if it is possible for a blind man to\npossess something\, he cannot\, without light\, see what he has. \nLet us imitate\, dear brothers\, this man… Let us not ask the Lord for deceitful\nriches\, earthly gifts\, nor transient honors\, but light; not the light circumscribed by\nspace\, limited by time\, interrupted by night… but let us ask for this light …which\ndoes not begin with any beginning and is bounded by no end. But the way to reach\nthis light is faith. It is therefore with reason that the Lord responds immediately to\nthe blind man to whom he will give light: “See! Your faith saved you. “… \n2 Accessed online: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/.
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