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Homily - Humility and Spiritual Sight
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- May 17, 2026
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"I Once Was Blind": Humility and Spiritual Sight St. John 9:1-38 In this homily on the healing of the man born blind, Father Anthony reflects on how Christ not only gives sight, but gradually heals the whole person. Though baptism opens our eyes to the truth of God and His Kingdom, we still struggle to see clearly through the distortions of pride, fear, anger, and self-justification. The path to true spiritual sight is therefore not certainty or condemnation, but humility, repentance, patience, and trust in the One who already reigns over the world. Enjoy the show! --- Today's Gospel shows us two very important things about the Christ to whom we have given our lives: that He has compassion for human suffering, and that He has the power to heal it. The man in today's Gospel was not born partially blind. He was born completely blind. And Christ gives him sight so that we may trust not only His love for us, but His power to remake us and remake the world. Saint John tells us why these signs were given: "Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing, you may have life in His name." The miracles are not spectacles. They are revelations. They show us who Christ is, and they show us what He desires to do with us. There is also a symbolic meaning to this miracle, and here we should remember the words of the Lord from the Gospel according to Saint Matthew: "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light." Now, growing up in Georgia, every time I hear this Gospel, I hear that hymn: "I once was blind, but now I see." And that is true for us. That is why that hymn resonates so de…