25 October 2025 – Saturday of the 29th week (odd years)
Homily
Nowadays, there are so many accidents and disasters like those mentioned in the first part of this Gospel that I don't think anyone is inclined to think that the victims of these events are sinners whom God wanted to punish. We are perhaps more inclined to say, when something painful or serious happens to us: ‘What have I done to God for this to happen to me?’ This is obviously a mistaken way of imagining God, for whom evil is not something to be explained, but to be eliminated. Thus, when a man born blind was brought to Him and He was asked whether this man was born blind because of his own sins or those of his parents, Jesus refused to answer the question and simply healed the blind man.