10 February 2012, Friday
Gospel: Mk 7:31-37
Healing of the Deaf Man
Returning from the district of Tyre, Jesus went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, right through the Decapolis region. And they brought him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they asked him to lay his hand on him. He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, put his fingers into the man’s ears and touched his tongue with spittle. Then looking up to heaven he sighed; and he said to him, ‘Ephphatha,’ that is, ‘Be opened.’ And his ears were opened, and the ligament of his tongue was loosened and he spoke clearly. And Jesus ordered them to tell no one about it, but the more he insisted, the more widely they published it. Their admiration was unbounded. ‘He has done all things well,’ they said ‘he makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.’
We come to know God through Jesus in the Gospels and today, we are again reminded of the compassion, responsiveness and power of our Almighty God, who is ever loving, powerful and alive today as He was two millenniums ago.
Blessed John Paul II said, “Meet often with Jesus through the Eucharist and His Gospels, because the more you know Him, the more you will love Him. And He will enrich your whole life.”
Have you allowed what you have read about Jesus to enter your heart and deepen your realisation of who He is, personally, to you?
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