[Grem] *****SPAM(5.2)***** Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends, in today’s Gospel,* Jesus heals a deaf man who had a speech
impediment.*

Mark tells us that *he took him “off by himself away from the crowd.” Jesus
then “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!’).*” *Looking up to his Father and inserting his
fingers into the man’s ears, Jesus establishes, as it were, an electrical
current, literally plugging him into the divine energy, compelling him to
hear the Word.*

Now for the healing’s spiritual significance. *The crowd is a large part of
the problem. The raucous voices of so many, the insistent bray of the
advertising culture, the confusing Babel of competing spiritualities—all of
it makes us deaf to God’s word. And therefore, we have to be moved to a
place of silence and communion.*

*Jesus draws us into his space, the space of the Church*.
*There, away from the crowd, we can immerse ourselves in the rhythm of the
liturgy, listen avidly to Scripture, study the theological tradition, watch
the moves of holy people, take in the beauty of sacred art and
architecture. There we can hear.*

*Imádkozzál érettünk, Istennek szent Anyja!  Hogy méltók lehessünk Krisztus
ígéreteire!  Könyörögjünk! Kérünk téged, Úristen, öntsd lelkünkbe szent
kegyelmedet, hogy akik az angyali üzenet által szent Fiadnak, Jézus
Krisztusnak megtestesülését megismertük, az ő kínszenvedése és keresztje
által a föltámadás dicsőségébe vitessünk! Krisztus, a mi Urunk által. Ámen.*
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