Please read the Scripture passage before the homily.
Two blind men follow Jesus. Jesus heals them. We may be tempted to say. “So what?”
This is where prophets like Isaiah come in. These prophets had suffered, as we all suffer, with aches, pains, reversals, misunderstanding. They, like us, have waited for the time of healing and wholeness to return to our lives and the world.
Matthew would have us see in what Jesus did the answer to the prophetic hope in the healing of the blind men. This Jesus is the Messiah, the Christ.
The healing on blind men is turning the forest into an orchard, is turning an orchard into a forest. It is the deaf hearing and the lowly finding joy. It is describing Jesus Christ as the One sent by God to be at home with all our sufferings. In other words, this is an Advent reading.