Blessed Are The Eyes That See
Gospel Reflection for Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 - Luke 10:21-24
In today’s Gospel we see Jesus in a moment of pure joy and prayer. He rejoices in the holy Spirit and thanks the Father for His wisdom — a wisdom that reveals divine truth not to the worldly wise, but to the childlike. He acknowledges that all things have been entrusted to Him but the father, and He ends with a strikingly intimate message: “No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal to Him.”
Then He turns to the disciples and says quietly, almost tenderly, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.”
Those words have stayed with me.
When was the last time I rejoiced in the Lord? When did I last come before Him with the openness and trust of a child?
When do I last remember that simply knowing Jesus, hearing His words at Mass, kneeling before Him in the Eucharist, is a profound blessing?
If I’m honest, not nearly as often as I should. Life interrupts, distracts, and fractures my attention often. I forget the privilege of knowing Christ so intimately, and the countless ways the Church draws us closer to Him through Scripture, the sacraments, and the rhythm of the liturgical seasons.
And now we are in Advent, a time of waiting, preparing, and longing. A season that both looks back toward Bethlehem, and also forward to Christ’s seconding coming. Advent gently invites us to reorder our days, to rekindle habits of prayer, and to make room where noise and consumption have taken over.
Today’s Gospel becomes a quiet reminder for us in this Advent season. It asks us to look closely at our relationship with Jesus.
Do we rejoice with Him?
Do we come to Him, small, trusting and unguarded?
Do we rely more on God’s wisdom than our own?
Do we see ourselves as blessed, truly blessed, to hear His words and to know Him at all?
Take a few moments today to sit with these verses. They offer us a beautiful glimpse into the nature of Advent, of intimacy, and unity with Christ. Let them shape your prayer and habits this season as you make room in your life for Jesus these several weeks before Christmas. May this season open our eyes to the blessing it is to know Christ and to be known by Him.
Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said,
“I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
for although you have hidden these things
from the wise and the learned
you have revealed them to the childlike.
Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.
All things have been handed over to me by my Father.
No one knows who the Son is except the Father,
and who the Father is except the Son
and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”
Turning to the disciples in private he said,
“Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
For I say to you,
many prophets and kings desired to see what you see,
but did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.”