Has your faith in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ opened Your eyes to see that He is truly alive today! Sisters and brothers in Christ today in His name are opening blind eyes to see, opening deaf ears to hear, healing the sick and leading many to the awareness that Heaven is open to us! Are you ministering to His flock as you are called to?
Or are you still wallowing in sin, blind to the presence of our Lord. Deaf to His word and will for you? Inward looking with little or no love for those around you?
Come to Jesus now! Come before Him as you are, He is waiting with open arms. Turn back to Him, and His light will shine bright once again, in and through you. Amen
Saint Nicholas, pray for us…
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First reading
Isaiah 29:17-24
In a very short time, the deaf will hear and the eyes of the blind will see
The Lord says this:
In a short time, a very short time,
shall not Lebanon become fertile land and fertile land turn into forest?
The deaf, that day, will hear the words of a book and, after shadow and darkness, the eyes of the blind will see.
But the lowly will rejoice in the Lord even more and the poorest exult in the Holy One of Israel;
for tyrants shall be no more, and scoffers vanish, and all be destroyed who are disposed to do evil: those who gossip to incriminate others, those who try at the gate to trip the arbitrator
and get the upright man’s case dismissed for groundless reasons.
Therefore the Lord speaks, the God of the House of Jacob,
Abraham’s redeemer:
No longer shall Jacob be ashamed, no more shall his face grow pale,
for he shall see what my hands have done in his midst, he shall hold my name holy.
They will hallow the Holy One of Jacob, stand in awe of the God of Israel.
Erring spirits will learn wisdom
and murmurers accept instruction.
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Gospel
Matthew 9:27-31
‘Take care that no-one learns about this’
As Jesus went on his way two blind men followed him shouting, ‘Take pity on us, Son of David.’ And when Jesus reached the house the blind men came up with him and he said to them, ‘Do you believe I can do this?’ They said, ‘Sir, we do.’ Then he touched their eyes saying, ‘Your faith deserves it, so let this be done for you.’ And their sight returned. Then Jesus sternly warned them, ‘Take care that no one learns about this.’ But when they had gone, they talked about him all over the countryside.
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