For the Mass Readings on the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B), Dr. Pitre discusses the persistence of Blind Bartimaeus as Jesus was passing by to have Jesus heal him. As Dr. Pitre covers, Bartimaeus not only expresses the Messianic identity of Jesus -- "Jesus, Son of David..." -- but this scene also shows both how faith is efficacious -- it has the capacity to actually do something -- and how Jesus is enacting a New Exodus, the one that was foretold in the prophets.
Along the way, Dr. Pitre will also discuss the Return of the Blind in the New Exodus as discussed in Jeremiah 31, which is the first reading for this Sunday's Mass readings, linking the Gospel reading with the Old Testament reading.
Notable Quote from this Week's Video:
“‘The Way’ is an evocative term because if you are asking Jews about ‘The Way’ or ‘The Road’ another connotation would be the road through the desert, the time of the exodus - when God made a path in the wilderness. So, there are two ‘ways’ in the Bible: there’s the way or the path of the Exodus under Moses, and then there’s the way or the path of the new exodus under Jesus. …You’ve got all these Exodus images swirling around beneath the surface of Mark’s Gospel. Well, here’s one more: the new exodus, the new path, the new way that we’re all called out of bondage and called to journey into is the way of discipleship.”
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