1. 23rd DURING THE YEAR Cycle B
SUNDAY
Regina
Listening to “You have loved me” by T. L. de Victoria, and as the deaf mute, let us feel close to Jesus

2. The SECTION OF THE LOAVES continues (Mk 6:32 – 8:26)
The healing of a deaf and mute man tells us that we need Jesus to open our senses to receive the MYSTERY of the LOAVES of BREAD
Jesus heals the deaf and mute man in the Decapolis. Gerash is a city of ancient Decapolis.

3. Sidó
After leaving Tyre, where he cured the daughter of the Canaanite, and passing through Sidon, Jesus wants to go to the Sea of Galilee, (to the Pagan East shore where he will do the 2nd multiplication of the loaves), but before, passing through the disctrict of the Decapolis today he heals the deaf mute man.
Tir

4. Mk 7:31-37 Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis.
Images of Gerash, 63 BC Roman city, which contains some of the best preserved Roman ruins in Jordan

5. Let us open ourselves to receive it today
Tyre
Let us feel close to Jesus, who travels the country giving important points of his message
Let us open ourselves to receive it today
Sidon
Jesus walks with the disciples around the region of Galilee giving them the latest teachings, before his death in Jerusalem

6. And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him.

7. Contact with Jesus always returns dignity
Our disabilities (physical or spiritual) are assumed by Jesus
Contact with Jesus always returns dignity

8. And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue. And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened." And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.

9. Jesus separates him from the crowd to give him the "sixth sense" (Faith) to go through life
Only in the light of God (Faith) we perceive things in their fair value

10. And Jesus charged them to tell no one
And Jesus charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.

11. Jesus does not want showmanship
When you do Good, close the door behind you, and Well will fill you

12. And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak."

13. Only the simple ones see the good that is in the world, not destroy it
They said: he has done all things well, and by all sites we can feel his GIFT
Only the simple ones see the good that is in the world, not destroy it

14. Help us, Lord, to discover your mystery and ours
Help us, Lord, to discover your mystery and ours. Then our senses will be opened to understand Your work in us

15. Nuns of St. Benet de Montserrat www.benedictinescat.com/montserrat