Our loving Father wants what is best for us, He loves and provides for us. What are we saying to Him when we worship ‘false Gods’? Things or persons other than the one true God? When we turn our backs on Him? Closed are our ears, eyes and hearts! See then how it is, a life separate from our Father.
Lord Jesus I come before You a sinner, cleanse and heal me. I desire only to love and serve my God. Let my eyes, ears and heart always be opened to Your Word and Your Will. Together with my brethren let me always proclaim, “You are the Lord my God, and I hear Your voice.” In Your most precious name Jesus. Amen
FIRST READING
1 Kings 11:29–32; 12:19
GOSPEL
Mark 7:31–37
Jesus left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis. And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him off by himself away from the crowd. He put his finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his tongue; then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (that is, “Be opened!”) And immediately the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly. He ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more he ordered them not to, the more they proclaimed it. They were exceedingly astonished and they said, “He has done all things well. He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”
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