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<b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Friends, <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>after Jesus heals the blind man in today’s Gospel, he tells him, “Do not even go into the village.”</b></span><br></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Now,
<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">blindness<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"> is</span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"> a biblical image for </span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">lack of </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">spiritual sight</span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">,</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the 
inability to</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> see things as they are</b></span>. One of the effects of the fall was a
 loss of holiness—seeing with the eyes of Christ, appreciating the world
 as a participation in the creative energy of God. <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>All of us
sinners, to varying degrees, are blind to <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">this metaphysics of creation 
</span>and tend to see the world from the standpoint of <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">the self-elevating ego.
 </span></b></span><br></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">One
 of the origins of this spiritual debility is <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>too much time in <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">the 
village</span></b></span>. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Jesus the healer and judge has to lead <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">us blind people</span> out of 
<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">the city </span>and give<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> us </span>sight</b></span>—a<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>nd then strictly enjoin <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">us</span> not to return <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">t</span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">o 
the blinding ways of the village.</span></span></b></span><br></span><br></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">We
 unfortunate village dwellers must, through the power of Christ, put on 
the mind of Christ. And then </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>we must live in a new town, the community 
of love and justice which is the Church</b></span>. </span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">It is this c<span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">ity of vision</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> that effectively challenges (and judges)</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the enduring power of the blinding society.</b></span></span></b></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></div><div><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding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