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Oct 2021
16m 35s

Are You Blinded by Cities of Sin?

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON
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Friends, in today’s Gospel, we hear the marvelous story of the healing of blind Bartimaeus—an icon of tremendous power and a sacred picture of the spiritual life and the process of salvation. We all find ourselves, in our need of Christ, in this image, as our own blindness distorts our vision of spiritual reality and the meaning of life. 
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