Blind Pensioner with a Stick , Van Gogh, November 1882 [ Web Gallery of Art ] Readings (New American Bible: Philippines,USA) Readings (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, India [optional], Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa) Gospel John 9:1-41 [or John 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38] ( New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition , Canada) [Shorter form of the Gospel: omit what is in square brackets] As Jesus walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. [ His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him. We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”] When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mu