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.