Who can see?

It is another one of those difficult things for us to comprehend as men and women of any time or culture, but perhaps especially in our contemporary western culture.  We, whom God loves, have been given sufficient grace for our purposes (notably our salvation).  But in these last days (as the Gospel is proclaimed on Earth and has been for over 2,000 years) not all "see" equally and some not at all.  This does not seem especially egalitarian or democratic.  One may immediately think of this as evidence that Holy Scripture portrays a pre-Enlightenment, post-naturalistic, non-meritocracy.  Jesus turned and spoke to his disciples.

"...and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see." (Luke 10:23)

Scripture gives us special insight into many relationships and not all of these relationships are equal.  Everything in Holy Scripture is meaningful to us and "speaks" to us, as they say, but it should not be forgotten that the early disciples - whether the twelve Apostles (or eleven) or the seventy (or seventy-two) disciples (or Apostles as they are sometimes called by the Eastern church) - had special communication with our Lord.  We in the year of our Lord 2010 should be grateful that these special relationships existed as they are part of the mechanism of transmission for the Good News which we indeed can "see" - and are blessed by seeing.