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The Scriptural readings for this Sunday are about spiritual blindness and Jesus as the one who heals blindness ─ both physical blindness and spiritual blindness. It might be well to reflect on  spiritual blindness as we prepare for the annual Reconciliation Day which will occur this year on March 29. 

The Church teaches that every person is called to be holy, to be a saint ─  that is. to live in the world as God intends us to live. Do I deliberately ignore that  call from God, or make little or no effort to let God grow holiness in me? Are the choices I make in life ones compatible with the will of God? If I can’t think of anything, I probably need to pray for God’s wisdom to enlighten any spiritual blindness that might be within me. 
 
I have found that many people who have not come to confession in a long time find it difficult to think about what they should say. It is not uncommon for priests to hear people say, "I don't know what I would say in confession, because I don’t do any terrible things, just some little white lies and things like that." One way to overcome that is to take a comprehensive Examination of Conscience pamphlet or booklet and go through it, marking or highlighting sins you recognize that are part of your life. The churches usually provide something like that for your use. You can bring that tool into the confessional with you and use it to confess your sins, or just make a list of the sins you recognized, bring the list with you into confession, and burn or shred it  afterward to preserve the privacy of your conscience.

God has revealed to us in the Holy Scriptures that Jesus died for sinners because everyone needed to be saved. If I think I have not sinned in any way, I am spiritually blind and need Our Lord’s grace to overcome my blindness.