Thursday – 8th Week of Ordinary Time B
Today’s gospel concerning the blind Bartimaeus comes to us right after the healing of the deaf man earlier in the passage. In between the two miracles, Jesus had given the apostles a third “heads-up” regarding what awaited them in Jerusalem, and right after the healing of this blind man, Mark’s gospel begins the chain of events leading to our Lord’s passion. This miracle therefore, sums up, in its rich symbolism everything that has happened thus far, and this is how we can apply a number of its beautiful elements to our own vocational journey: