November 17, 2025. Gospel Passages: Luke 18:35-43; Mark 10:46–52; John 9:1-34; Luke 2:19. Also Acts 9:6. Quoting from "Friends of God" Points 190-204 (Living by Faith) by St. Josemaría Escrivá in escriva.org/en/amigos-de-dios/living-by-faith, from "The Forge" Point 754 in escriva.org/en/forja/754, and from "Conversations" Point 116 in escriva.org/en/conversaciones/116. Quoting St. Jerome from "Catechism of the Catholic Church" Point 133 in vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__PS.HTM and "Dei Verbum" Point 21 in vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651118_dei-verbum_en.html. Meditation with Fr. Eric Nicolai, guest priest, recorded in Toronto on "In Your Presence" on Spotify. Image: "Christ Healing the Blind Man of Jericho" by Italian School in Musée des Beaux-Artes, Nantes (Wikimedia Commons). Music: Handel, Opera Rinaldo, Aria Lascia che io pianga adapted for guitar by Bart Alink. Priest's Note: This passage lends itself to our prayer, because we can easily conjure up the image, the sounds, the atmosphere, the smells, that the blind man was experiencing. We weren’t there, and we too are blind, in a way. And he reacted. St. Josemaría has a long commentary on this passage in Friends of God, from a meditation he preached on October 12, 1947. How do I really read the Word of God, Holy Scripture, to its fullest meaning?