And they came into Bethsaida, and they brought to him a blind man, and they asked him to touch him. And having laid his hands on the blind man he took out of the village, and having spat onto his eyes and placed his hands on him, he asked him ‘What do you see?’
And regaining his sight, he said ‘I see … people walking …like trees.’
Then again he placed his hands upon his eyes, and he opened his eyes and he was healed and he saw everything clearly.
And he sent him to his house, saying ‘Do not go into the village.’
O thou, who art the light of the minds that know thee,
the life of the souls that love thee,
and the strength of the wills that serve thee;
help us so to know thee that we may truly love thee;
so to love thee that we may fully serve thee,
whom to serve is perfect freedom.
Amen