The Gospel for the day is about a blind man who asks Jesus to have pity on him. Part of the drama here is that for some reason, it wasn't his place to do so and therefore people around him were rebuking him.
I've been thinking alot recently about this concept of place or social location and who gets tospeak and who is expected to remain silent. And here in the Gospel, the blindman was out committing some sort of social sin by calling out to Jesus.
Maybe Jesus heardthe blind man the first time around but he wanted to see if the blind man wouldpersist. And the blind man did persist despite the people telling him to shush.So Jesus stopped, healed the blind man and said that it was the blind man's faith that healed him.
Faith in what? Faith that Jesus could and wanted to heal, yes. But maybe also faith that God was accessible to anyone and everyone, even those whom society considered to bespeaking out of turn.
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