February 11, 2011
D A I L Y G O S P E L
In this miracle of healing Jesus intimates that He is the Messiah. Such acts of healing are part of the expectation of the Jews of what the Messiah will do to affirm His identity. How the Jews failed to recognize Jesus’ true identity is a mystery that we will never be able to answer satisfactorily until we get the answer from God Himself. Suffice it to say that sin, and the blindness it brings to God’s goodness, has a central role to play in the answer.
ALLELUIA
R: Alleluia, alleluia
Open our hearts, O Lord, to listen to the words of your Son.
R: Alleluia, alleluia
Mark 7:31-37
31 Jesus left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis. 32 And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay his hand on him. 33 He took him off by himself away from the crowd. He put his finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his tongue; 34 then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (that is, “Be opened!”) 35 And [immediately] the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly. 36 He ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more he ordered them not to, the more they proclaimed it. 37 They were exceedingly astonished and they said, “He has done all things well. He makes the deaf hear and [the] mute speak.”
D A I L Y G O S P E L
In this miracle of healing Jesus intimates that He is the Messiah. Such acts of healing are part of the expectation of the Jews of what the Messiah will do to affirm His identity. How the Jews failed to recognize Jesus’ true identity is a mystery that we will never be able to answer satisfactorily until we get the answer from God Himself. Suffice it to say that sin, and the blindness it brings to God’s goodness, has a central role to play in the answer.
ALLELUIA
R: Alleluia, alleluia
Open our hearts, O Lord, to listen to the words of your Son.
R: Alleluia, alleluia
Mark 7:31-37
31 Jesus left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis. 32 And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay his hand on him. 33 He took him off by himself away from the crowd. He put his finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his tongue; 34 then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (that is, “Be opened!”) 35 And [immediately] the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly. 36 He ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more he ordered them not to, the more they proclaimed it. 37 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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