Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh. Transaction
такими, какими нас видит Бог, или даже такими, какими нас видят люди, как
непривычка прислушиваться к голосу собственной совести отнимает у нас
возможность познать себя даже из того, что мы сами могли бы сказать о себе. И
вторая черта этого рассказа заключается в том, что Вартимей искал помощи и
исцеления в течение всей своей жизни, обращался, несомненно, ко всем, на кого
мог хоть сколько-то понадеяться,— и ни один человек его не исцелил.
Только встреча со Христом вернула ему зрение. Христос оказался единственным,
Who could let him see. And during this whole week we had to
to think about how blind and in what way we are, to set before ourselves
The question of how much we do not see our own blindness, we imagine ourselves
sighted and how our usual understanding of ourselves does not correspond to the
reality in the light of God's truth, God's truth. For this week we had to
turn to Christ and say: "I am blind. You are the only Light
enlighten the world! Enlighten my spiritual eyes, let me see life, myself
yourself, others — the way you see me, life, and others
me, people." From this we would not see the light completely, but we would come to a complete
awareness of how blind we are, and realize that if we are not healed
Christ the Savior Himself, then no one will heal us, because all those around us
are more or less blind and all people see each other not in light, but in semi-darkness. You
probably remember the story of how Christ healed another blind man, how He
He anointed his eyes and asked, "What do you see now?" and he answered Him, "I see
passing people like trees.—Mark 8:22-26. This is how we see each other
Other. Rarely, rarely do we miraculously get away from ourselves and see
man as he is. And we see what it is in two ways. On the one hand,
On the other hand, we see in him the image of God, his eternal indelible beauty, on the other hand,
We see, sometimes with pain and horror, how this image is desecrated and
disfigured, as if we were looking at an icon that has been disfigured,
deprived of its primeval beauty and glory.