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(QAR) Thu 8th week of the Gospel according to St TO Mc .- 10.46-52. "He was shouting louder than ever"

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Thursday, March 3, 2011

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Saint Gregory the Great : "He was shouting louder than ever"


Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Mark from 10.46 to 52.

Jesus and his disciples came to Jericho. And while Jesus was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a large crowd, a blind beggar, Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the roadside. Learning that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout: "Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me!" Many people rebuked to silence, but he cried the more, " son of David, have mercy on me! "Jesus stopped and said," Call him. "It therefore calls for the blind, and he said:" Trust, raises now, he calls you. "The blind man threw his cloak, jumped up and ran to Jesus. Jesus said, "What do you I do for you? - Rabboni, I see. "And Jesus said to him:" Go, thy faith hath made thee whole. "Immediately the man began to see, and he followed Jesus on the road.

From the Liturgical Translation of the Bible - © AELF, Paris



Today's Commentary:

Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604), pope and doctor of the Church
Homilies on the gospel, No. 2, PL 76, 1081 (trans. Luke commented, DDB, 1987, p. 141 rev.)

"He was shouting louder than ever"

that any man who knows the darkness that makes him a blind cry ... with all his mind: "Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me." But listen also what follows the screams of the blind man: "Those who walked at the head rebuked to silence him" (Lk 18.39). Who are they? They are there to represent the desires of our condition in this world, griefers, the vices of man and tumult, who, wishing to prevent the coming of Jesus in us, disturb our minds by sowing the temptation and want to cover the voice of our heart in prayer. Often, indeed, that our willingness to turn to God again ... our effort to remove our sins by prayer, or frustrated by their image: the vigilance of our spirit is released from them, they throw confusion into our heart, they stifle the cry of our prayer ...

So what did the blind man to receive light despite these obstacles? "He shouted the louder, 'Son of David, have mercy on me! '"... Yes, the tumult of our desires overwhelm us, we make our most urgent prayer ... The voice of our heart is covered, the more it should insist vigorously, cover up the tumult of intrusive thoughts and touch the Lord's faithful ear. Everyone will recognize, I think, in this picture: when we try to divert our heart of this world to bring him back to God ... these are all unwelcome burden on us and that we must fight. It is a swarm that God's desire is hard to avoid the eyes of our heart ... But by persisting strongly in prayer, we stop in our mind that Jesus was passing. Hence the story of the Gospel: "Jesus stopped and ordered them brought to him" (v. 40).


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