It’s the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time and today’s gospel is the familiar story of the encounter of our Lord Jesus Christ with the blind Bartimaeus in Jericho. I am blessed to have visited Jericho two ...

In the Gospel according to Mark, Jesus and his disciples are leaving Jericho and on their way to Jerusalem when they hear a blind beggar named Bartimaeus cry out, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” ...

Today’s Sunday Gospel is once more about the cure of the Blind Bartimaeus. You can read it in your Bible in Mark 10:46-52. “As Jesus was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a sizable crowd, ...

Oct. 24 is the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass Readings: Jeremiah 31:7-9; Psalm 126:1-6; Hebrews 5:1-6; and Mark 10:46-52. In today’s Gospel there is the familiar story of the healing of the blind ...

What does Bartimaeus do when he’s healed? He follows Jesus along the way — the way that leads to death and glory. LEFT: Fernando Gallego, “The Healing of Blind Bartimaeus,” 1480-1488. RIGHT: Václav ...

The story of Blind Bartimaeus is a story for us all. At first glance we might wonder, “What could I possibly have in common with a blind beggar?” Jesus and his disciples are traveling through Jericho ...

When Jesus encounters the blind man Bartimaeus, son of Timaeus, in Mark’s Gospel, he has just unveiled the last of the three Passion predictions, in which he explains the suffering and death that ...

Mark 10:46 “And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.” The ...

Jesus and his disciples are traveling through Jericho on their way to Jerusalem. As they’re leaving the city they pass blind Bartimaeus, who’s begging by the side of the road. When he hears that it’s ...