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Who’s to Blame? (Sunday of the Blind Man) (Saint Nicholas Velimirovich)

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‘And his disciples asked him, Teacher, who was to blame, he himself or his parents, that he was born blind?’ (Jn. 9, 2). A little earlier the Lord had cured the paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda and had said to him: ‘Go and sin no more, lest worse befall you’. (Jn. 5, 14). It’s clear from Christ’s words that the latter, who had been crippled for so many years, was himself to blame for his sickness. The case of the man who was born blind, however, was not so clear and this is why His disciples asked ‘Who sinned?’. The fact that God sometimes allows offspring to suffer for the sins of their parents had been clarified already in Holy ...

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Sunday of the Blind Man (Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou)

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Today’s Gospel reading describes the healing of a man born blind, and speaks about the Light of life, the Heavenly Light, Christ. God’s revelation occurs in stages as in last week’s Gospel. Both the blind man and the Samaritan woman initially consider Christ to be an ordinary man, then they recognise Him as one of the Prophets, and finally they worship Him as the Son of God and Saviour of the world. The Lord had already faced the fervent hatred of the Jews, who persecuted Him from every side as a blasphemer. There was a great uproar when He broke the Sabbath and referred to Himself as the Son of God; they cast Him out of the synagogue and deprived him ...

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It’s hanging over you (Saint John of Kronstadt)

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Even if you experience all the pleasures of the world, the greatest misfortune is poised over your head. When you sin, you become God’s enemy. You find yourself in grave danger of losing eternal life through neglect, when you live a careless life and don’t perform works worthy of repentance.

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