We read in the second reading  that everything ‘Expose to Light become Light.’ Sin is committed in the darkness. A sure sign of sin is things done in secret. Parents tell there kids ‘nothing good happens after 12 pm.’ Sin happens in the  darkness. One way for a couple to live in Christ is to do nothing in secret. If you are afraid to tell your spouse what you are doing it is most likely something sinful or wrong. 

In therapy we bring to light that which is repressed in the subconscious. I just finished reading Fulton Sheen book ‘Peace of Soul.’ which was written in 1949. And he quotes something that sounds very modern, but he is only quoting St Thomas Aquinas ‘ Any idea which is hurtful to the mind does harm in just the proportion that it is repressed. The reason is: the bond is more intent on a repressed idea than is it were brought to the surface and allowed to escape. ‘ This sounded very modern.. But it was written in the 13th c. 

As the second reading said ‘everything expose to the light become light.’ If we repressed something that is true but uncomfortable. It stays with us.. We think about it more, rather than let it escape us. 

In the Gospel Jesus says ‘it is because you say you can see that you are blind. If you were blind you then could see.’ No longer is as blind as the person who claims to see clearly in everything. A former diplomat  who was involved in foreign policies said…there are four things.. First that which you know. Second that which you don’t know.  Third that which you know you don’t know. And lastly that which you don’t know that you don’t know.’ Meaning that which is going to get you is that which you don’t know that you don’t know..

Car window’s have a blind spot. Now we all have our blind spot. But we can ask the light of God to fill our souls with light so that can can see our selves as we are. This is a good practice of having a daily examination of conscience. So that we can shed light on the dark spots of our souls. 

Because the darkness doesn’t go away just because we don’t see it.. In fact unacknowledged guilt always comes back up in unexpected ways. Jesus has given us the great sacrament of Confession us that we can bring to light those things that are in the darkness of our heart, so that when they are exposed to light they become light.