May 8, 2012 – John 9 - 9:34

I was wrong, we get the good shepherd in the next reading in John.

This blind man is the personification of all Christians, or what we are suppose to be.  We are blind in sin.  Through Baptism we are made to see.  We can grow blind again through sin, but can be given our sight back though the Sacraments.  Once we can see, we will be judged by those that do not believe.  We will be accused and we will be asked to defend ourselves.  Those that we think closest to us (the man’s parents) will not come to our defense out of fear.  Our only defense will be the words God puts in us and testifying to what has happened to us.  Testify that we were blind and now we see, that only God can make a person born blind from birth see again.

Speaking of being born blind from birth, this is made reference to throughout the story.  If we are looking at the blindness being related to or teaching us about our sin, this points to the understanding and teaching of Original sin.  This is the understanding that every person is born with the stain of Original Sin that was caused by the fall of Adam and is a part of us from birth because of that.