Illuminator of the blind: what healing, Waiting, definitiveness?
(Mt 9:27-31)
The encyclical Fratelli Tutti [Brothers All] invites us to a perspective look that inspires decision and action: a new “eye”, full of Hope [n.55].
Yet experts (self-confident) do not grasp the - reversed - dignity of the Mystery of God and of humanity.
They know the ambitions, the law, the dictates of others, the fashions, or their ideas; not the upheavals of the soul and life.
So they make us stay like in a cold forest and dedicated to the strong, sterilized or imaginative, but paradoxically wild.
Competition is not lacking, indeed it will be even more subtle consequence, as in the case of eminent ‘apostles couple’ ambitions (just so!).
These “blind men” are the two sons of Zebedee, who - like the others - aspire to primacy.
The healing of those who have sight defects was one of the assets brought by the expected Messiah (Is 29:18; 35:5).
Everything would be turned for the better.
But in his encounters, Jesus operates a spiritual healing, not partial or frivolous and external.
The divine work in woman and man is prodigious, but in the sense that it becomes much deeper than a physical restoration.
The action of awakening the Faith and a new acumen of the soul allow to grasp the Lord’s own project.
This makes us docile to let His design be realized in us, and implemented by God himself.
The allusion is to the House [Church] in which all the characters enter as if it were normal and in a non-polemic context (v.28).
Even the reference to the fact that those in need of ‘enlightenment’ gather there, leads to reading in filigree the echo of ancient baptismal liturgies.
Around Jesus, here is the global sense of Christ’s encounter with believers.
The teaching to which we too, who are always ‘defective of sight’ are introduced by contact with the Master in the reunited community, is expressed in the transition from the title of the son of David (v.27) to that of Lord (v.28).
The blind people to whom myopia is corrected are the leaders and the catechumens, now believers.
In their experience of Faith they pass from the idea of the glorious Messiah - resembling a ruler - to that of the close Friend and Brother.
This is why his Person opens up to Perception a panorama that prorupts as a rebirth and reversal of the values on the basis of which practical life is invested.
The reason for the thick outer darkness is precisely the ideology of power. It must disappear into the consideration and universe of the disciples.
This is the reason for the so-called messianic silence (v.30). And everything flows «from» another gaze, penetrating.
Such is the definitive intervention of God who elevates vision, dreams, and spirit, and thus activates paths that we do not know.
A new maturity is coming.
[Friday 1st wk. in Advent, December 6, 2024]
