The proverb says, “It is better to light a candle than to say it is dark. Lent is the time to transform darkness into light in our surroundings and inside.
Our God is indeed a seeing God. He sees the whole man. He also sees the heart. He created man to see. He gave us flesh, eyes, the light of the Spirit, and the heart’s power. Who cannot see is poor. Not wanting to see is regrettable.
The Gospel represents a different attitude towards blindness. Jesus helps the blind from birth. “He spit on the ground, made the saliva mud, rubbed his eyes with the mud, and said to him, ‘Go, wash in the Siloe pond.'” Then the Pharisees said, “If you were blind, you would not have sinned. But you say, ‘We see.’ So your sin remains” (John 9:41).

Even today, the light of Jesus brings light into the darkness of sin that attacks us. John did not mark the name of the healed but marked all the essential things that happened around the healing. Healing has gradation and escalation. Jesus is concerned not only with bodily vision but also with spiritual sight and faith. The event of healing is a continuity from one thing to another. The blind would not see if he did not meet Jesus. Jesus teaches, “I am the light of the world” (Jn 8:12). Jesus Himself comes to the blind. Nobody tells him what to do. But if one did not do what Jesus commanded—”Go, wash in the pond of Siloed” (John 9:7)—he would not be healed. God requires cooperation from a free and intellectually gifted person. Blind washed and saw. He cleared the mud from his eyes and saw. God created man not just for this world. The goal is much larger. Our homeland is in heaven. It is necessary to fulfill the mission, the role on earth, to obtain eternal reward, the goal, to see God face to face. To reach this vision, we must bear witness, prove ourselves, and earn eternal reward.
Cured of blindness, he must bear witness. Though he does not know who gave him sight, he says clearly and fearlessly, “He is a prophet” (John 9:17). This reveals Jesus’ identity.
In healing, faith in Him who has power over the body ripens. He becomes a witness. Parents are afraid of the enemies of Christ, the Pharisees. They do not know who has healed their son, but their faith is growing, even if it is not like their son, so they say, “Ask him. He has his years to speak for himself” (John 9:21).
Parents are afraid to confess what they already feel in their hearts. They fear the power of the Pharisees, who could exclude them from the synagogue. They were not there when Jesus touched the sick eyes with the mud and preached to wash them. On the other hand, faith grows with healing. He has new experiences. He sees what he hasn’t seen so far. Therefore, he answers the Pharisees not only as a discoverer of new values but also as one who wants everyone to be as happy as he is. But when he answers the question, he becomes not only a master of the word but also a master of faith for those who testify of themselves as believers and who, although they see and have healthy eyes, their soul’s eyes are sick, unwilling, and not knowing the Messiah. “Why do you want to hear it again?” Do you also want to become his disciples? (John 9:27) we know that the blind also gains sight of faith. What if they wanted to silence him? Know from his words, “If he were not of God, he could not do anything like that” (Jn 9,33). Jesus’ testimony receives new grace; his faith grows. It grows even though the parents’ fear is fulfilled. They drove the healed from the temple.
Jesus is coming again personally. He presents himself to the sick. He hears him in faith. The healer cooperates by saying, “I believe, Lord,” and bowing to Jesus. The Pharisees watch what happens to the healed. They suspect that he will meet Jesus. They want to destroy Jesus. And Jesus reveals their anger and sin: “If you were blind, you would not have sin. But you say, ‘We see.’ So your sin remains” (John 9:41).

Reflecting the healing of the blind from birth challenges us to embrace Christ as the light for the eyes of faith. In baptism began the life of faith. The awareness of the importance of baptism for faith brings a revival, the light for a new vision in both natural and supernatural life. To consciously and voluntarily renounce sin and choose good heals, heals, brings to life the values ​​of the unknown, and hope grows in us. Receiving Christ as a doctor who brings light, and light is life, is more than the light of the sun. Receiving Christ in the heart challenges us to listen for God’s voice. God speaks to us. God is looking at us. God is waiting for our response. Lent is a good time to explore God’s will: what God wants from us and what we are obliged to give to God. God wants His light, which heals, heals, and gives life, to penetrate our whole interior and all our natural and supernatural life. Even a slight improvement, a recovery of faith, will enrich us. Whoever wants and allows God to penetrate His light is the small beginning of change, the beginning of great things that enrich, give meaning to life, and bring to values ​​unknown.
In his commentary on the healing of the blind from the birth of Jesus, Ephesus says that it was not the Siloam pond that gave the blind man sight, but Jesus, whom the blind man obeyed and fulfilled what he asked of him. Baptism is not enough; we must also cooperate, after baptism, with the graces God gives through the Holy Spirit in the Church.
God heals not only the sick eyes of the body, but whoever cooperates with the grace God bestows heals the eyes of the soul. Not only does one realize that God has helped him in natural things—illness, misfortune, failure—but he also changes his relationship with spiritual values ​​and becomes twice as rich. They can say, from personal knowledge, that the eyes of the body are healthy, but the eyes of the soul must also be used. He who stubbornly accepts God’s help as a Pharisee and remains opposed to him must realize that Jesus is addressing him also: “If you were blind, you would not have sinned. But you say, ‘We see.’ So your sin remains” (John 9:41). Everyone builds our happiness. Not illness is a sign of sin, but rather a persistence in the hardness of the heart. Isn’t that our case? Being a Christian is not enough; we may attend mass … when our soul’s eyes cannot see our sins. He who lacks the light of faith, hope, and love is on the path to death. God does not want the death of man but to turn and live.

Every act, deed, and manifestation of faith is an offering to God that leads to eternal happiness.

Bruno Ferraro wrote: Many years ago, fleeing a terrible bully, several families found shelter in the wild Andes hills. There, they found a green valley and fertile ground beneath the five-thousand-meter-high peaks, and a creek ran through it.
Over time, a strange disease began to spread among those who were hiding. Children were blinded first. Adults became their guides unless the blind children were well orientated in their environment. So an unseen community formed. When the fourteenth generation could no longer see, a seer came to that land. He realised that these blind people led simple, humble lives. He stayed among them, convinced that blindness did not hinder them at all. After a time of blindness, this person began to find it difficult to see. He decided to run. He did it.

Many find themselves in personal blindness. They raised their tribes in blindness. The fact that many do not see what God gives does not mean that it does not exist. God created man to conquer the world and rule over God’s work, not to become a slave to God’s work that God created for man out of love for him. God has not ceased to love man. He puts on his eyes the “mud”, many values ​​of spirit, art, and science, through which, when used correctly, one can acquire knowledge and consciousness of true happiness, freedom, and wealth. But one must cooperate with God. Fulfilling God’s will also includes appropriate, regular thanksgiving to God for His gifts. Every adult, free and reason-conscious person, is then responsible for himself. This also obliges us.

If we have already visited one of the beautiful caves, we know that, although we admire the limestone and aragonite works, we cannot live in a cave without light for long. And on the other hand, we realize that we can have everything in the world—comfort, wealth, fame, power—and it will not fill a person entirely. Perhaps, as long as he is still healthy, young, and certainly only in this world. God wants us to live forever. Therefore, it reminds us to care for the eyes of the soul. We should look at the world not only through the eyes of the body.