Beloved, the believer in Christ Jesus is chosen like David to be the eye of the world. He like Jesus shall be a sign to be rejected and contradicted yet he like Christ shall bring the rise and fall of many. The chosen child of God must resist intimidation of the world and remain firmly convinced in what he has received- the Light of Christ. This is what we shall symbolically receive on Holy Saturday- Lumen Christi. We must turn like this blind man who now sees, evangelize the world around us and make them see the marvels of the Lord: If this man were not from God, he could do nothing; the man testified and taught others. We must convince them of what God can do and who he is for the world. When we are cast out for being the light, Jesus would receive us and we only need to say: Lord, I believe and then worship him the more. Let your life challenge others around you to ask: Are we also blind?

We pray that we may turn into children of light in Christ Jesus and try to learn what is pleasing in his sight; let our lives expose the works of darkness that we may awake as sleepers in the faith so that Christ’s light may shine upon us, Amen.