Fourth Sunday of Lent – 15th March 2026
Dear brothers and sisters,
Today’s Gospel speaks about a man who could not see. He was blind from birth. He had never seen light. He did not know what the sky looked like, or his mother’s face, or the colours of flowers. He lived in darkness and depended on the kindness of others.
And one ordinary day, Jesus passed by.
The disciples immediately asked, “Who sinned?” People often look for someone to blame. But Jesus does not look for blame. He sees the man. He sees his suffering. He sees his heart. And he says, “So that the works of God might be shown in him.”
Jesus comes close. He makes mud, touches the man’s eyes, and tells him to go and wash. The man obeys. He goes. He washes. And he begins to see.
What a moment that must have been! For the first time, light. For the first time, faces. For the first time, the world opened before him.
But the Gospel does not stop there. Because the real blindness was not only in this man. It was also around him.
The neighbours doubt. The Pharisees question him again and again. Some cannot accept that God worked in such a simple way. The one who was blind now sees, and those who think they see remain closed.
This is the great message of the Gospel: the worst blindness is not in the eyes, but in the heart.