HOLY PASCHA
May 20, 2012
sUNDAY OF THE BLIND MAN
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CHRIST IS RISEN!
INDEED HE IS RISEN!
The Lord Jesus was coming from the Temple on the Sabbath, when,
while walking in the way, He saw the blind man mentioned in today's
Gospel. This man had been born thus from his mother's womb, that is, he
had been born without eyes (see Saint John Chrysostom, Homily LVI on
Matthew; Saint Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book V:15; and the second
Exorcism of Saint Basil the Great). When the disciples saw this, they
asked their Teacher, "Who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was
born blind?" They asked this because when the Lord had healed the
paralytic at the Sheep's Pool, He had told him, "Sin no more, lest a
worse thing come unto thee" (John 5:14); so they wondered, if sickness
was caused by sin, what sin could have been the cause of his being born
without eyes. But the Lord answered that this was for the glory of God.
Then the God-man spat on the ground and made clay with the spittle.
