Blindness

Christ restores sight to a Blind Man.

Jesus has healed many Blind Men, but Blindness can also be spiritual.

In "The Gospel as Revealed to Me"

The Disabled

• Go and tell, the blind see, and the lame walk…(Matthew 11:1-5)
• Healing of the Blind Man of Bethsaida: I see people, I see them like trees, but they walk. (Mark 8:22-26)
• Healing of Sidoine (Bartholmai) the man born blind (John 9:1-34).

Spiritual Blindness

• It is strange, this stubbornness, this mental impotence even in the best of those who follow Jesus to understand his greatest Mission… Everything the sacred Books say is true, except this: that the Messiah must suffer and die, and be defeated by men.
• They become blind by their own free will. And the Father sent me so that the separation would be made and that one would truly know the children of the Light and those of the Darkness, those who want to see and those who want to become blind (John 9:39-41).

In other works by Maria Valtorta

In the Notebooks

• Catechesis of September 25, 1944: "Do you not know that, in either Niniveh, there are at least ten percent and five percent of those one hundred and twenty thousand who feel their misfortune of being spiritually blind and the deficiency of their spiritual intelligence? They cry out to me: "Jesus, have mercy on us, who are sick! Make us see! Open our Hearts and our minds so they may understand you!" And I, Jesus of Nazareth, the good Master, the divine Thaumaturge, should I not have mercy on them? Moreover, not only on them but also on those whose dealings with Vice have made them similar to animals."

In fundamental Christian texts

In the Bible

• "Be amazed and stunned, become blind and without sight; be drunk, but not with wine, stagger, but not with strong drink, for Yahweh has poured out upon you a spirit of stupor: Prophets, He has closed your eyes! Seers, He has veiled your heads! And all visions have become for you like the words of a sealed book which is handed to a reader saying: "Read this." And he says: "I cannot, for it is sealed." And the book is given to one who cannot read saying: "Read this." And he says: "I do not know how to read."

• "Ephraim, because you have indulged in debauchery, Israel has become corrupt. Their Actions make their return to their God impossible, for a spirit of prostitution is at work in them, and they do not know Yahweh. The Pride of Israel testifies against him. Israel and Ephraim stumble over their fault, and Judah also stumbles with them."

Holy person who performs miracles of healing or resurrection (Example: Jesus the Divine Thaumaturge).