Meditation of His Beatitude Patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa: XXXII Sunday Of Ordinary Time

This Meditation is shared from the website of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

Below you can find the Meditation of His Beatitude Patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, for the XXXII Sunday Of Ordinary Time, Sunday 10 November 2024.

Mark 12:38-44

We saw two Sundays ago that Jesus' last miracle before entering Jerusalem and experiencing the Passion was that of healing a blind man, Bartimaeus (Mk 10:46-52). And this is because the disciple is the one who sees: he sees God at work in history and recognizes it by his unique and unmistakable style, which is the style of Easter.

Just like the disciples of Emmaus: they see a pilgrim walking with them, but they only recognize him when they see him breaking bread (Lk 24:31, 35). Because that gesture speaks of God, it speaks of his way of living and loving. The disciple is the one who learns to see, to look at life through the lens of Easter.

Today's Gospel (Mk 12:38-44) revolves around the theme of seeing and looking.

Jesus is in the temple with his disciples.

What he sees provides him with the opportunity to teach: one must beware of one category of people, the scribes, the wise, not because they do anything particularly bad or reprehensible. They are simply not people who look, but rather people who seek to be looked at (Mark 12:40)…

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