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From: Donald . . .
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Subject: Ephasia and Ephphatha Mk.7:31-37
From: Donald . . .
To: Nivard . . .
Sent: Monday, 10 September 2012, 11:00
Subject: Ephasia and Ephphatha Mk.7:31-37
Hi, Nivard,
Sometimes the Night Office rouses up the Aphasia/Ephphatha experience.
There was not a word of the Second Reading, Title or paragraphs, I could hear until the comment, "He has done all things well". Not to hear another word until again, "He has done all things well", again and again, (actually on eight occasions, including Genesis 1:31).
That was too much for me getting back to the Lectionary and uncover the mystery.
The Second Reading is from St. Lawrence of Brindisi, the Sunday Gospel Mark 7:31-37.
I count eight utterances of, "He has dona things well", and repeats in the paragraphs.
The Gospel concludes also verse Mk:7,37, "He has dona things well".
How did I miss all this?
Maybe the explanation may also be in the Gospel, Verse 34, "He said to him, "Ephphatha", and the link with the word Ephasia.
It is possible that, "deaf man who had an impediment in his speech" suffered from a Stroke.
It is interesting comment on patients.
"Speech Impediments:
- Auditory Aphasia - Don’t know what speech sounds like.
- Gibberish Aphasia – Speak words and Phrases that make no sense.
- Motor Aphasia – Know what they want to say but cannot utter the words.
- Amnesic Aphasia – Can’t recall certain words that are familiar.
St. Lawrence of Brindisi is new to me, and wonderfully on pitch.
Donald
TWENTY- THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Year B
Gospel: Mark 7:31-37
Returning from the district of Tyre, Jesus went
by way of Sidon toward the Sea of Galilee, right through the Decapolis region.
And they brought him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they
asked him to lay. his hand on him. He took him aside in private, away from the
crowd, put his fingers into the man's ear and touched his tongue with spittle.
Then looking up to heaven he sighed; and he said to
him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be
opened" And his ears were opened, and the ligament of his tongue was
loosened and he spoke clearly. And Jesus ordered them to tell no one about it,
but the more he insisted, the more widely they published it Their admiration
was unbounded. "He has done all things well," they said
"he makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak."
+ + +
From a homily by Saint Lawrence of Brindisi
(Horn. I,
Dom. XI post Pent 1.9.11.12: Opera omnia, t 8, 124.134.136-138).
To imitate Christ by doing all things well is not
simply a matter of doing good works: we must also do them with the right
intention All God's good works are done for our sake, so we must do ours for
his sake.
Just as the divine law says that when God created the world he saw all that he had made and it was very good, so the gospel, speaking of our redemption and re-creation, affirms: He has done all things well A good tree
bears good fruit; no good tree can bear bad fruit As fire can give out nothing but heat and is incapable of giving out
cold; and as the sun gives out nothing but light and is incapable of giving out
darkness, so God is incapable of doing anything but good, for he is infinite
goodness and light He is a sun giving out endless light, a fire producing
endless warmth. He has done all things well
And so today we must wholeheartedly unite with that holy throng in
saying: He has done all things well He has made the deaf hear and the dumb speak
Like Balaam's ass, this crowd certainly spoke
under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit Clearly it was the Holy Spirit who
said through its mouth: He has done all things well; in other words he is
truly God, because making the deaf hear and the dumb speak are things that only
God can do. There is a transition here from the particular to the general This
man has worked a miracle that only God could work; therefore he is God"
who has done all things well.
He has done all things well. The law says that
all God did was good; the gospel says He has done all things well. Doing
a good deed is not quite the same as doing it well. Many do good deeds but fail
to do them well The deeds of hypocrites, for example, are good, but they are
done in the wrong spirit, with a perverse and defective intention. Everything
God does, however, is not only good but is also done well The Lord is just in all his ways and holy in all his deeds. With wisdom you have
done them all: that is to
say, most wisely and well, So he has done
all things wen they say.
Now if God has done all his good works and done
them well-for our sake, knowing that we take pleasure in goodness, why I ask do
we not endeavour to make all our works good and to do them well, knowing that
such works are pleasing to God?
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