Dear Family of God,

How do we truly see as God sees?

We need God in order to quench our thirst and to see what truly can satisfy our needs. We are called to see as God sees. God reminded Samuel in our first reading that “man sees the appearance, but the Lord looks into the heart.”

St. Paul in our second reading describes the difference before and after knowing Christ as being transformed from darkness to light. “You were once darkness but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light.”

By grace we have been changed. Our conversion to the light of the Lord has already begun in our baptism, when we were washed clean of sin. The season of Lent is a time for us to renew our surrender to God so He can make further progress in this inner change, emptying us of ourselves and filling us with the Light of Christ so His Light can shine clearly to those around us.

This process is revealed to us in our Gospel today, as the man born blind is first healed of his physical blindness, and then is able to see Jesus through the eyes of faith: first as a prophet, then as the Messiah. At the same time the spiritual blindness of the Pharisees steadily grows worse because of their pride and belief that they know everything.

Let us allow God to shine in us by believing in Him and our union with him in the Sacrament and Charity.

Yours through Mary Immaculate.

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