26 October 2024 - Saturday of the 29th week (even years)
Eph 4:7-16; Luke 13:1-9
Homily
In our day there are so many accidents and disasters like those mentioned in the first part of this Gospel that I do not think anyone is inclined to think that the victims of these events are sinners whom God wanted to punish. We are perhaps more inclined to say, when something bad or serious happens to us, “What have I done to God to make this happen to me?” This is obviously an erroneous way of imagining God, for whom evil is not something to be explained, but to be eliminated. Thus, when a blind man was presented to him and asked whether he was born blind because of his own sins or those of his parents, Jesus refused to answer the question and simply healed the blind man.