I was blind, but now I see: 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B), October 27, 2024

"I was blind, but now I see..." When Andrea Bocelli sings that beautiful line from the hymn, Amazing Grace, you know it is a prayer that comes from deep in his own experience as a blind man. He would understand why Bartimeus in today's gospel reading would ask Jesus for just one thing: "I want to see." The most important "seeing" here is a seeing of things unseeable: love, life, amazing grace.    

 Homily shared with the Saint Francis Catholic Community in Cuenca, Ecuador. This homily is a revision of one delivered in Spokane some years ago.