|
|
|
Fourth Sunday in Lent Jn 9/1-41 |
||
| Background: If there is some reason to
think that last Sunday's Gospel was a one-act play that some of the very early Christians
staged, there is much more reason to believe that today's story of the man born blind is
an early example of theological drama. It would be a mistake, however, to read it merely
as an expression of sorrow by early Christians who had been thrown out of the synagogue to
which they felt they belonged because there was no incompatibility with synagogue
membership and following Jesus. It is also a drama about the qualities it takes to see and
to see through human phoniness wherever one encounters it. If it were not for phonies
(that is men to whom power and institution meant more than religion) on both sides, the
tragic separation of Church and Synagogue might never have happened. |
read the padre |
|
 |
Story: Once upon a time there was
this boy, a senior in college who had a total crush on a young woman who was a junior. She
was totally gorgeous and very smart and also very nice, like I mean she never got drunk,
you know? She was so pretty and so popular and so cool that our hero couldn’t believe
that she even noticed his existence. A lot of his friends go, that chick really is crazy
about you, but he thought they were just making fun of him. And some of her friends are
like, she’d really enjoy going out with you. But our hero, who was a very shy boy
(all boys are shy even they don’t act that way but he was very, very shy) thought
that they were making fun of him too. His family had made a lot of fun of him when he was
growing up, you see. Well, the young woman, whose name was Fiona, sat next to him American
Lit class and talked to him before and after class (about American lit naturally) and
stopped to talk to him when she met him on campus (about American lit or about the
women’s basketball team on which she played) and about all he could do was reply with
animal noises like he was a freshman in high school. You see, he thought she was like
making fun of him too! Well, she kind of hung around his family at graduation and they
thought she was totally cool. His mother is like that young woman is in love with you and
you’re a total retard (that’s the way people talked when his mother was in
college) if you let her get away. He thought his mother was making fun of him too. So
he’s like, she doesn’t care about me at all. And his mother goes, there’s
no one so blind as he who will not see. My story has to end here, alas.
|
|
