1.
Why would the disciples ask Christ whether the man’s blindness was the result of sin (either his own or his parents)? What is the significance of Jesus’s response?
2.
Which do you think is the greater event—that the man’s blindness was cured or that he believed in Christ and worshipped him?
3.
What do you think of the Pharisees metric for whether Jesus is of God or not (i.e. his healing on the Sabbath)?
4.
What do you make of Jesus’s statement that he came for judgment—that those who do not see may see, and that those who do see, may not see?
5.
The three readings for this Sunday all concern true enlightenment (not the 18th Century epoch perhaps more properly called the “Darkening”). How has your own vision of the world changed or been affected by your faith in Christ?
6.
What are the challenges that you perceive in your own life or in the lives of others vis-à-vis embracing the light of faith?
7.
If, as Pope Benedict says, we are all in the position of the blind man as far as our sins are concerned, what does that say about the efficacy of our own efforts to cure ourselves?
