Listen Up (Twenty-third Ordinary)
Then Jesus looked up in prayer, groaned mightily, and commanded, “Ephphatha! – Open up!” And it happened. The man’s hearing was clear and his speech plain – just like that.
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Then Jesus looked up in prayer, groaned mightily, and commanded, "Ephphatha! - Open up!" and it happened. The man's hearing was clear and his speech plain - just like that. Jesus urged them to keep it quiet, but they talked it up all the more, besides themselves with excitement. "He's done it all and done it well. He gives hearing to the deaf, speech to the speechless."
- Mark 7: 34 - 37
Do not be afraid to show the joy of having answered the Lord's call, of having responded to his choice of love, and of bearing witness to his Gospel in the service of the Church. And joy, true joy, is contagious; it is infectious ... it impels one forward.
- Address to seminarians and novices, 6 July 2013
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Then Jesus looked up in prayer, groaned mightily, and commanded, “Ephphatha! – Open up!” And it happened. The man’s hearing was clear and his speech plain – just like that.
The Pharisees, along with some religion scholars who had come from Jerusalem, gathered around him. They noticed that some of his disciples weren’t careful with ritual washings before meals …
Many among his disciples heard this and said, “This is tough teaching, too tough to swallow.” (John 6: 60) The lines in the gospel reading today about many of Jesus’