To believe means to see deeper, His Beatitude Sviatoslav on the Sunday of the Blind Man

Sunday, 06 June 2021, 21:25

To believe means to see the world in the light of Christian faith, God’s provision and truth. When we transgress after the Mystery of Baptism, our consciousness gets narrower, so to say. Since every sin blinds us. His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Head and Father of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church brought this up during his homily on the Sunday of the Blind Man.

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The preacher said that today the Holy Gospel with the narration of evangelist John presents an image of God as the light.

According to the text, it is unheard of to open eyes to the one who was born blind. As the Major Archbishop emphasized it is not about a simple healing, but it something deeper. It is about a creation of a new man, rather a renewal of the man in Christ himself. Christ gives an opportunity to become a receiver of life, God’s light.

Another point of this healing of the blind man lays in Christ’s words “go and wash in the Pool of Siloam”, which literally means a moment when God enlightens and calls us from death to life.

The moment of that enlightenment, the moment when a person becomes a communicant and bearer of God’s light is an act of faith.

The meeting of God and the enlightened one ends up in the confession of faith. “Interestingly, the Pharisees did not know who the Christ is, whereas the one who saw Him – did. Even more, he acknowledged the one who he had believed in”, said His Beatitude Sviatoslav.

“To believe means to see deeper”, the Major Archbishop emphasizes. And every time we transgress we become slaves of darkness. That is when we sometimes lose what we have obtained. We lose an ability to see. Every time we come to Confession, when we fight against our sins – we experience the moment of God’s enlightenment.

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