In today’s first reading, Isaiah 29: 17-24, the prophet Isaiah gives us the following
message of hope: in “a very little while,
…Lebanon (insert any city anywhere in the world) shall be changed into an orchard, and the orchard be regarded as a
forest! On that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book; and out of gloom
and darkness, the eyes of the blind shall see. The lowly will ever find joy in
the Lord, and the poor rejoice in the Holy One of Israel (Jesus, our
Savior). …[T]he tyrant will be no more
and the arrogant will have gone; all who are alert to evil will be cut off,
those whose mere word condemns a man (a person], who ensnare his defender at
the gate, and leave the just man with an empty claim.”
May the tyrant, the arrogant, those courting evil, those whose words condemn others and who make empty claims beware of
the prophet’s warning. May those doing good in the world, acting justly and
loving tenderly (compare
Micah 6:8) rejoice in this hopeful
message and call upon the name of the
Lord in mercy. May Jesus,
our Savior, purify all of us of any tyrannical intentions, arrogant pursuits, evil motivations, condemnatory thoughts and empty claims—sin
within us now and those we have committed in our past. Like the two blind men
in today’s Gospel,
Matthew 9: 27-31, may we approach Jesus in humble prayer, asking to be healed and freed of our infirmities, spiritual, physical\, or psychological.
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