--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 6/05/09 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 6/05/09 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2009/06/05/daily-readings-reflection-for-60509#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 6/05/09 Jun 5, 2009 4:00:34 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Reflection on the Daily Readings for 6/05/09 by Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM [Today’s Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/) Scripture for Fri. of first week. Tobit 11:5-15. Psalm 146:2.7.8-9.9-10. Mark 12:35-37. lectionary # 357: How precious is our eyesight!  Today's scriptures open our eyes to three different ways of seeing or to three different visions given to us for meditation.  Tobit, Anna, the Psalmist, and then the Gospel of Mark opens our eyes to a new look at what a Psalm says about David and God! Anna, the wife of Tobit, sees her son Tobiah coming toward her and she is thrilled.  Her eyes lead her to embrace and show her motherly affection. What a gift to see him. She breaks out in a subtle way of thanking God, "Now that I have seen you again, my son, I am ready to die."  Her natural vision leads to joy and praise of God. Tobit, is blind from an unusual happening. He is said to have cataracts. But the mysterious messenger Raphael is accompanying Tobiah with a remedy for curing Tobit's blindness.  It is one that is even extolled today as medicinal and good for the eyes--the equivalent of fish oil in capsule form--but since they did not have tablet vitamins in those days, Raphael has advised Tobiah to bring some fish gall to heal Tobit. The advice is followed through a ritual of applying, breathing or blowing upon the eyes of Tobit, and finally the removing of the cataracts by pealing them away. Tobit, like Anna, cries out, "I can see you, son, the light of my eyes." The Psalmist praises God for healings of various sorts but among them are healings of the blind. "The Lord gives sight to the blind and raises up those that were bowed down.Praise the Lord my soul." Jesus is asking a question that will lead those who are listening and believing to a great inner vision about who the Messiah of God really is. He brings up the first verse of Psalm 110 ( a royal messianic psalm) that is emphasized in the New Testament in view of its messianic characteristics.  Jesus asks what is the meaning of the expression, "The Lord said to my Lord: sit at my right hand until I make your enemies my footstool." Is Jesus calling into question the messianic lineage from David?  Some may think it does, but Jesus is probably saying that even greater than the messianic physical lineage from David is the transcendent relationship of the Anointed One (the Messiah) to God.  We Christians would understand that to be the divine sonship of Jesus and in our belief that he is the Messiah but above all the Son of God, the Word of God made flesh, and the blood descendant through Joseph of the house of David by his adoption by Joseph the husband of Mary of Nazareth.  Thus, "while humanly descended from David (Matthew 1:1-17; Romans 1:3; II Timothy 2:8), the messiah had a character transcending mere blood ties with David; so the latter could rightly refer to him by the name otherwise reseved to Yahweh." (E.J. Mally, S.J. Jerome Biblical Commentary).  Thus to understands such a meaning attached to the Psalm one would have to have the gift of faith in Jesus' words and his deeds as the Son of God.  We thank God for all three ways of seeing.  We remember also the blind who believe without seeing. 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