The Blind ones of Jericho (Mt 20, 29-34)
And when they left Jericho a great crowd followed them. And behold, two blind men sitting by the roadside, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, they began to cry out, saying: "Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David." But the people rebuked them, telling them to be quiet. But they cried out more, saying: Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David. And Jesus stopped, called them, and said: "What do you want Me to do with you?" They say to Him: 'Lord, let our eyes be opened.' And Jesus, moved with compassion, touched their eyes. And at once they recovered their sight and followed Him.
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May be you have to read the paragraphs a couple of times to understand well.
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Jesus spoke to us about the evil of ambition and in the previous passage He gave us the remedy: to serve. He spent His time in this world serving and now He gives us another example.
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This Friday, December 5, 2015, when I gave this catechesis in English, the Gospel was about two blind men who followed Jesus and He did not attend to them until they arrived at the house and then He did heal them, it is as if He tested their perseverance, as in the case of the Syrian Phoenician woman who also shouted behind Jesus and the Apostles and He did not attend to her at first, but after testing her faith, He made the miracle she asked for her daughter. Prayer must be persevering, always continue without being discouraged. Sometimes God doesn't respond quickly because He wants us to show perseverance, but He doesn't take long to help us. Or perhaps we should understand that what we asked of Him was not in our best interest.
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In this passage certain people were an obstacle.
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And now the obstacle in the Church is tremendous: scandalous and heretics in the Church are an obstacle to finding God, they must be excommunicated, Our Lady of the Roses asks us. Where there are "priests" or riffraff "who serve at Mass" who seem somewhat mannered, even the air of the church becomes dark and dirty (the same with the scandalous and heretics who come to dirty on purpose, who come to Mass only to rot the atmosphere because they do not believe in Jesus or the Sacraments, despite being baptized, they come to conquer the Church).
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When people told the blind men to shut up, they screamed more. Excellent. When we encounter the obstacle of people of darkness in the Church we must pray more and make more sacrifices for them to leave (so that every heretic and scandalous person may be excommunicated, as Our Lady of the Roses commands).
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We have to imitate Jesus, and He came to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many.
Now the young people seem to want nothing more than to be served. For example, I read the title of an article where a mother complained that her teenage son only talks to her to ask for money. Young people no longer study hard because they are not taught rigorously in schools and when they get home most only know how to get addicted to screens and then they complain that they cannot find work. I have from my personal experience, that when I got to a job as a secretary, I immediately made a map of the offices putting the name of the person and his number as an intern, but when I had to leave and "train" those who were going to take my place, they didn't even take the trouble to grab a pen to write down the numbers... I read headlines from e.g. a carpentry company that says: "after years we have just found an apprentice with desire to learn and work".
It's just:
1) Society rotted because it no longer honors God as it used to.
2) They want to live in other times while they waste their lives on screens and not on obeying God (every day we have to go to church to pray the exorcism of St. Michael, but they don't even go to Mass on Sundays!) and how is it that they want blessings? They know that their future is very difficult and they only manage to complain or invent fanciful solutions (I read of young people in Spain who say "we would like to live in the time of Franco", but there were 30,000 martyrs who were tortured to death simply for being Catholics, people who left the comfort of their homes having to fight a war that they did not want but that socialism, which is satanism, began, without declaring it, a war against Catholics, a month after coming to power, and then came a time of peace and good thanks to the Church and the great Francisco Franco because there was morality in accordance with Holy Tradition). People need graces of CONVERSION and CURE, and they will have them if they ask Our Lady of the Roses with faith.
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Someone once told me that it makes us very good to read a miracle of Jesus that you like specially and read it by putting yourself in the place of the person who needs the miracle, imagining that you are there. Yes, it does very well.
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The Virgin Mary, Queen of the Prophets, appeared at La Salette saying that if the people did not make amends, a great famine was going to come, and it came the following year throughout Europe. In Fatima, the angel of Portugal and then Our Lady, came asking us to sacrifice ourselves and pray rosaries, She came to prevent the II World War, but the Pope at that time did not pay attention to Lucia, who told him to consecrate Russia (that consecration still has to be done). And now "the ball is in our court" in that of ordinary people, because the Messages of Our Lady of the Roses are for everyone, if you obey them there will be peace and good and joy, but unfortunately people have neither faith nor love nor courage to obey them and, at the very least, to wear the Sacramentals to protect their souls. In this age of "freedom", or I would say better: debauchery, they are afraid to wear a cross with the image of Jesus around their necks!
Do you see? At La Salette She spoke with two shepherd children, who in turn spoke to the parish priest. In Fatima She spoke with 3 shepherd children and performed a miracle that was seen by 70,000 people, Lucia, already a nun and famous, wrote directly to the Pope, but the Virgin was not obeyed either. Now the Messages of Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers are for all the people of the world... and? Are you not going to obey either?
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A Warning is going to come to all mankind where we will all feel like fire, how our sins made Jesus suffer on the Cross and we will hear a voice saying: Your Warning before the Chastisement.
But "woe to the man that did not convert before the Warning" Our Lady of the Roses says.
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The blind were courageous to recognize Jesus as the Messiah, it was difficult to follow Jesus. Near the third year of preaching, the high priests, together with the pharisees and herodians sought to kill Him, and anyone who declared himself in His favor was cast out of the synagogue. The Way was never easy, but God gives us everything we need to walk and arrive to Heaven. The cowardly and the lukewarm are thrown into hell.
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People now don't have the courage to carry a cross with the image of Jesus around their necks... what do they expect? Blessings? Punishment for not following Jesus according to the Messages of Our Lady of the Roses. Those who are still thinking about it, read the message of July 15, 1971
The blind men, seeing well after the miracle, followed Jesus. For more than 22 years God has given us a very beautiful catechesis and you can tell that people like it, they understand a bit of the light, but...
T h e y d o n o t f o l l o w H i m... what a pity.