Feb. 10, 2012 Friday: 5th Week in Ordinary (B)
Jesus, gave a deep groan, and said to the man, "Ephphatha," which means, "Open up!" At once the man was able to hear and he began to talk without any trouble. Mark 7:34-35
Helen Keller was deaf, dumb, and blind. One day, Miss Fuller, a speech teacher, paved the way for Helen to talk. She put Helen's hand to her face to feel the positions of her tongue and lips when she spoke to Helen. Helen then tried to duplicate them. After long practice, she learned to talk. Her joy was
unbounded. She wrote later: "I used to repeat ecstatically, "I'm not dumb now." This is how the man in the Gospel must have felt when Jesus healed him.
How appreciative am my gifts of hearing, speech, and sight?
-Fr Mark Link SJ
Helen Keller was deaf, dumb, and blind. One day, Miss Fuller, a speech teacher, paved the way for Helen to talk. She put Helen's hand to her face to feel the positions of her tongue and lips when she spoke to Helen. Helen then tried to duplicate them. After long practice, she learned to talk. Her joy was
unbounded. She wrote later: "I used to repeat ecstatically, "I'm not dumb now." This is how the man in the Gospel must have felt when Jesus healed him.
How appreciative am my gifts of hearing, speech, and sight?
-Fr Mark Link SJ
