From Catholic Charities USA ... " Advent and Christmas Daily Reflections"

Friday of the First Week of Advent

When I was in middle school, a seemingly minor incident on the playground while my mother was monitoring recess duty left her with a detached retina and needing surgery on her right eye. Although the doctor was able to reattach the retina, it kept tearing in the process, which required more surgeries. Over the span of several years, she had more than 20 surgeries on the eye to repair it and was considered legally blind because as she described it, “there was a constant strobe light flashing in my eye.” Three years ago, however, due to technological advances in medicine, she had one more surgery that corrected the eye. She no longer has the ‘strobe light’, her vision is 20/20 (with glasses), and all things considered, she is healed.

Today’s Gospel reading focuses on Jesus giving sight to two blind men ...

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