“Recover your sight, your faith has saved you.”  Lk. 18:35-43

The Lord wants us to persevere in prayer and above all to be creative, as did the blind man of Jericho, who cried out: “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”…and he screamed louder. God’s will is to stop, ask us, and listen to our cry…then to be attentive and compassionate toward us. And at the same time, He calls us to be ready to listen to the cry of the most vulnerable, that cry that must touch our hearts in order to go out in haste to live mercy, to draw near and to be moved: “Splanchnizomai” , that is, to let ourselves be affected by empathy, to allow ourselves to be transformed from the depth of our being.

Let us ask, like the blind man of Jericho, to recover our gaze clearly, to know how to see and hear the cry of pain of our most needy brothers and sisters.