Quinquagesima Sunday 2025
In today’s Epistle, St. Paul teaches us about the greatest of the theological virtues.  In Heaven there is no need for faith nor hope, but charity will last for all eternity.  We are told by the Church Fathers that the blindness of the man in this Gospel represents our own blindness, and we too should cry out today for Christ’s help.  The work we put into any effort in life, apart from that which aids in the salvation of our souls, will eventually be taken away from us.  The saints realized that they could trade those things that have no value here on Earth to gain everything for all eternity.  Not only the one who desires riches, but also those who work tirelessly just to survive, must not lose perspective.  We should never care for sustaining our temporal lives so much that we risk losing our eternal life.  Today we come to the end of this season of examination of conscience.  We ask that God open our eyes and give us true sight, so that in seeing God we may love Him, and in seeing ourselves we may cease to love ourselves.
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