May 28 - Thursday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Pt.2:2-5,9-12; Ps.100:2-5; Mk.10:46-52) "Be as eager for milk as newborn babies – pure milk of the Spirit to make you grow unto salvation." Does not the "blind beggar Bartimaeus" show his eagerness for the milk of the Spirit, for the blood of Christ upon his soul, when he persistently calls out "Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me!" despite those who "were scolding him to make him keep quiet"? And was his ready desire to meet with the Lord not revealed most clearly when "he threw aside his cloak, jumped up and came to Jesus." All else becomes as nothing as even in his blindness he strains…
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