4th Sunday of Lent (Year A) - John 9: 1-41

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🗓️ 18 March 2023

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Luke 9: 1-41 - 'The blind man went off and washed himself, and came away with his sight restored.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 1151 (in 'Signs and Symbols') - In his preaching the Lord Jesus often makes use of the signs of creation to make known the mysteries of the Kingdom of God. He performs healings and illustrates his preaching with physical signs or symbolic gestures (abbreviated).

- 1504 (in 'Christ the Physician') - Often Jesus asks the sick to believe. He makes use of signs to heal: spittle and the laying on of hands, mud and washing.

- 2173 (in 'The Sabbath Day') - The Gospel reports many incidents when Jesus was accused of violating the sabbath law. But Jesus never fails to respect the holiness of this day. He gives this law its authentic and authoritative interpretation: "The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath." With compassion, Christ declares the sabbath for doing good rather than harm, for saving life rather than killing. The sabbath is the day of the Lord of mercies and a day to honor God." The Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath."

- 2827 (in 'Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven') - "If any one is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him." Such is the power of the Church's prayer in the name of her Lord, above all in the Eucharist (abbreviated).

- 588 (in 'Jesus and Israel's faith in the one God and Saviour') - Jesus scandalized the Pharisees by eating with tax collectors and sinners as familiarly as with themselves. Against those among them "who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others", Jesus affirmed: "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." He went further by proclaiming before the Pharisees that, since sin is universal, those who pretend not to need salvation are blind to themselves.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Logical Bible Study podcast. And this is the podcast where we take a look at the reading from, the gospel reading from
0:21.0	the day's mass.
0:22.6	And we're going to do that again today.
0:24.3	But this is another one of those really, really long readings.
0:27.3	And I wouldn't be able to do it justice in terms of providing an exegesis of such a long
0:31.8	passage.
0:32.6	So again, today, I'm going to read out the entire passage.
0:35.7	And I want to encourage you to just meditate
0:37.6	on what's going on here because it's actually a bit of a lesser known story from the
0:42.0	Gospels but a really interesting one and Jesus says some really interesting things here
0:46.2	that are well worth thinking about. So later in this podcast, later in the liturgical year,
0:53.2	we will go through this particular passage
0:55.7	and we'll break it down into smaller chunks.
0:58.2	But just for today's podcast, I want to read out the entire thing and then share some
1:04.9	catechism references that apply to this particular long passage.
1:09.4	And we're reading today from John chapter 9, verse 1 to 41.
1:17.3	As Jesus went along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.
1:22.5	His disciples asked him,
1:24.9	Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, for him to have been born blind?
1:31.3	Neither he nor his parents sinned, Jesus answered. He was born blind so that the works of God
1:37.3	might be displayed in him. As long as the day lasts, I must carry out the work of the one who who sent me the night will soon be here when no one can work as long as i am in the world i am the light of the world
1:53.5	having said this he spat on the ground made a paste with the spittle put this over the eyes of the blind man, and said to him,
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