The gospel today is about the healing of the blind man. It’s a proclamation that Jesus is the light of the world who is accepted by the blind man and rejected by the Jewish leaders.
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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:01 First Reading
6:26 Bishop David Walker
10:31 Fr John Frauenfelder
11:57 Mrs Virginia Ryan
13:29 Self Reflection
13:45 Second Reading
19:33 Bishop David Walker
19:55 Mrs Virginia Ryan
20:19 Fr John Frauenfelder
21:17 Self Reflection
21:54 Farewell & Final Prayer
John 9:1-41
1 As he went along, he saw a man who had been blind from
birth. 2 His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man
or his parents, that he was born blind?’ 3 Jesus replied, ‘Neither he
nor his parents sinned. He was born blind so that the works of God
might be revealed in him.
4 ‘As long as day lasts
we must carry out the work of the one who sent me.
Night is coming when no one can work.
5 As long as I am in the world
I am the light of the world.’
6 Having said this, he spat on the ground, made a paste with the
saliva, spread it on the man’s eyes, 7 and said to him, ‘Go and wash
in the Pool of Siloam’ (which means ‘Sent’).b So he went off and
washed and came back able to see.
8 His neighbours and people who had earlier seen that he was a
beggar said, ‘Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?’ 9 Some
said, ‘It is.’ Others said, ‘No, but he is like the man.’ The man himself
said, ‘Yes, I am the one.’ 10 So they said to him, ‘Then how were
your eyes opened?’ 11 He answered, ‘The man called Jesus made a
paste, spread it on my eyes and said to me, “Go off and wash at
Siloam.” So I went and washed and could see.’ 12 They said to him,
‘Where is he?’ He answered, ‘I do not know.’
13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.
14 It had been a Sabbath when Jesus made the paste and opened the
man’s eyes, 15 so the Pharisees asked him again how he had come
to see. He said to them, ‘He put a paste on my eyes, and I washed,
and I can see.’ 16 Then some of the Pharisees said, ‘That man is not
from God: he does not keep the Sabbath.’ Others said, ‘How can a
sinner produce such signs?’ And there was division among them.
17 So they said to the blind man again, ‘What have you to say about
him – as it was your eyes he opened?’ The man answered, ‘He is a
prophet.’
18 However, the Jews would not believe that the man had been
blind and had come to see till they had sent for the parents of the
man who had come to see and 19 asked them, ‘Is this man your son
whom you say was born blind? If so, how can he now see?’ 20 His
parents answered, ‘We know that he is our son and that he was born
blind, 21 but how he can see, we do not know, nor who opened his
eyes. Ask him. He is of age: he will speak for himself.’ 22 His
parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews
had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged Jesus as the
Messiah should be banned from the synagogue. 23 This was why
his parents said, ‘He is of age: ask him.’
24 So the Jews sent a second time for the man who had been blind
and said to him, ‘Give glory to God! We know that this man is a
sinner.’ 25 He answered, ‘Whether he is a sinner I don’t know; one
thing I do know is that though I was blind I can now see.’ 26 They
said to him, ‘What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?’
27 He replied, ‘I have told you already and you did not listen. Why
do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples
yourselves?’ 28 At this they hurled abuse at him, ‘You are his
disciple, we are disciples of Moses. 29 We know that God has
spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he
comes from.’ 30 The man replied, ‘The amazing thing is this: that
you do not know where he comes from and he has opened my eyes!
31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but God does listen
to someone who reveres God and does his will. 32 Ever since the
world began it is unheard of that anyone should open the eyes of
someone born blind; 33 if this man were not from God, he would
not have been able to do anything.’ 34 They answered and said to
him, ‘You were born wholly in sin, and are you teaching us?’ And
they drove him out…