What does Jesus tell us to do when we see He has helped us?
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Question 1: “What connects Noah and the Ark, the blind man in Today’s Reading, and us?”
Answer: “Today’s Reading begins with Genesis 8:6-13, 30-22, at the end of The Flood: ‘At the end of 40 days, Noah opened the hatch he had made in the ark.’ On the second release of a dove, it returned with a ‘plucked-off olive leaf’. Noah knew God was drying up the floodwaters. He ‘chose from every clean animal and every clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.’”
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Question 2: “Does Today’s Psalm 116:12-19 tell us to follow Noah’s example of thanking God for His help?”
Answer: “‘To you, Lord, I will offer a sacrifice of praise. The cup of salvation I will take up; I will call upon His name; my vows to The Lord I will pay in the presence of His people, in the courts of the house of the Lord, in the midst of Jerusalem.’”
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Question 3: “Should we follow Today’s Reading from Ephesians 1:17-18 and pray: ‘May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes of our hearts, that we may know what is the hope that belongs to His call.’”
Answer: “That begins Today’s Riddle from Mark 8:22-26. ‘When Jesus and His disciples arrived at Bethsaida, people brought to Him a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village.
‘Putting spittle on his eyes, He laid His hands on the man and asked ‘Do you see anything?’ Looking up, the man replied, ‘I see people looking like trees and walking.’ Then He laid hands on the man’s eyes a second time and he saw clearly; his sight was restored and he could see everything distinctly.’”
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Question 4: “That is a miracle! Where is the ‘riddle’?”
Answer: “The riddle is the unspoken question ‘Why?’ that follows the concluding passage: ‘‘Then, Jesus sent him home and said: Do not even go into the village’?”
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “When God helps us, Catholics see / we should thank Him, privately.”
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