A group of people bring a man to Jesus to heal him; this man is deaf and has a speech impediment. Jesus tells the man to be opened! And then the man could plainly speak. Sometimes it seems like we are deaf ourselves, doesn’t it, just like the man in the Gospel today. We may want to hear God’s word, we may want to hear God’s will speaking to us, but sometimes that message is difficult to hear, drowned out by all the other noise in the world around us, noise that we often voluntarily put in our lives. Other times it may seem like we have a speech impediment. The words we want to speak don’t come out the way we want them to. We speak unkindly, ignoring the message God gives us to say. As we hear of this Gospel story of healing today, I think of the sacrament of the anointing of the sick that we have in our Catholic faith that we are going to offer today. That Sacrament brings healing into our lives, it brings comfort to our souls and to our physical bodies. Pope Francis has said that the Sacrament of the Eucharist is also a sacrament of healing for our soul and forgiveness for our sins. May we feel Christ’s healing presence with us today.
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