"Lord, that I May See"
With Quinquagesima Sunday and the last Sunday of the Shrovetide, God in today's readings speak of True Sight. A Sight of conscience, a Sight of looking within than without. Sometimes to look within we must realize, "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away the things of a child. "(1 Corinthians 13). It is in humility we must realize our inner blindness, like the butterflies or the bees which gather round flowers, we must gather round God. We must be like the poor Bartemeus. Sorrowing at our painful ignorance and horrifying sinfulness, we too must cry out; "Jesus,son of David, have mercy on me." The world, the flesh and The Devil will try to hush us out just like the worldlings did to Bartemeus. But nonetheless we must crying out, "Son of David, have mercy on me." But when it comes for us to desire what we ought to ask, may we like Bartemeus ask, "Lord, that I may...