8 Sep 2024
Could this happen today?
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For 8 September 2024, Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, based on Mark 7:31–37
Jesus returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue. Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, ‘Ephphatha’, that is, ‘Be opened.’ And immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. Then Jesus ordered them to tell no one; but the more he ordered them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. They were astounded beyond measure, saying, ‘He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.’
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
08 September 2024 @ 11:43 pm
Your words were an anointing salve to my trembling heart as I prepare to address our associate candidates today. Thank you.
08 September 2024 @ 11:59 pm
Thank you Sr. Louis Mary.
09 September 2024 @ 12:08 am
Dear Sr. Louis Mary,
Your prophetic refection on the gospel today challenges us to listen more closely to the words of Jesus. How often we put other things, activities before listening to the call of the Spirit to
“Come away and sit with Jesus awhile.” I pray to be more open and willing to those intimate moments when Jesus wants to heal myself, and our world today of too much busyness and to be attentive to what is really important, listening to Jesus say: “Be opened.”
God blesses your preaching, abundantly!
Brigid Cannon, OP