• PPC Editorial España
  • Contacto
twitter
youtube
  • INICIO
    • QUIÉNES SOMOS
    • QUIÉNES LO FORMAMOS
    • QUÉ PRETENDEMOS
    • DÓNDE QUEREMOS LLEGAR
  • METODOLOGÍA
    • ORGANIZACIÓN
    • DINÁMICA DE LAS REUNIONES
  • PARTICIPA
    • DÓNDE Y CÓMO PARTICIPAR
    • ETAPA 1 – Reunidos en el nombre de Jesús
      • TEMA 1 – ¡Ánimo! Soy yo. No temáis
      • TEMA 2 – ¡Ánimo! Levántate. Te está llamando
      • TEMA 3 – Venid a mí los que estáis cansados y agobiados
      • TEMA 4 – Pedid, buscad, llamad
      • TEMA 5 – ¿Qué buscáis?
      • TEMA 6 – Id a Galilea. Allí lo veréis
      • TEMA 7 – Este es mi Hijo amado. Escuchadle a él
      • TEMA 8 – ¡Ábrete!
    • ETAPA 2 – El camino de Jesús
      • TEMA 9 – Impulsado por el Espíritu de Dios
      • TEMA 10 – Fiel al Padre
      • TEMA 11 – Enviado a los pobres
    • ETAPA 3 – La Buena Noticia de Dios
      • TEMA 12 – El Padre bueno
      • TEMA 13 – Dios busca a los perdidos
      • TEMA 14 – Dios es bueno con todos
      • TEMA 15 – Dios escucha a los que se confían a él
    • ETAPA 4 – Rasgos de Jesús
      • TEMA 16 – El hombre curado en sábado
      • TEMA 17 – El paralítico curado de su pecado
      • TEMA 18 – El leproso curado de la exclusión
      • TEMA 19 – Amigo de pecadores
      • TEMA 20 – La prostituta acogida por Jesús
      • TEMA 21 – El rico buscado por Jesús
      • TEMA 22 – Dichosos los pobres
      • TEMA 23 – El rico indiferente y el mendigo hambriento
      • TEMA 24 – La mirada de Jesús a la mujer encorvada
      • TEMA 25 – La defensa de la mujer adúltera
    • ETAPA 5 – Grandes llamadas de Jesús
      • TEMA 26 – Convertíos y creed la Buena Noticia
      • TEMA 27 – Acoged la semilla del reino de Dios
      • TEMA 28 – Vete y haz tú lo mismo
      • TEMA 29 – A mí me lo hicisteis
      • TEMA 30 – Amarás a tu Dios y a tu prójimo
      • TEMA 31 – Amad a vuestros enemigos
    • ETAPA 6 – Llamados a seguir a Jesús
      • TEMA 32 – Sígueme
      • TEMA 33 – Cargad con la cruz
      • TEMA 34 – Sois la sal de la tierra y la luz del mundo
      • TEMA 35 – Vosotros orad así
      • TEMA 36 – Haced esto en memoria mía
    • ETAPA 7 – Enviados por Jesús resucitado
      • TEMA 37 – A los pies del Crucificado
      • TEMA 38 – Yo os envío
      • TEMA 39 – Quédate con nosotros
      • TEMA 40 – Poneos en camino
  • BUENAS NOTICIAS
    • CASTELLANO
    • EUSKERA
    • GALLEGO
    • CATALÁN
    • INGLÉS
    • FRANCÉS
    • ITALIANO
    • PORTUGUES
  • AUTOR
    • Cartas
    • Videos
  • NOTICIAS
  • RECURSOS PASTORALES

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – B (Mark 7,31-37)

Evangelio del 09 / Sept / 2018
Publicado el 03/ Sep/ 2018
por Coordinador - Mario González Jurado

TO HEAL DEAFNESS

The healing of a deaf-mute in the pagan region of Sidon is told by Mark with a clearly pedagogical intention. The man has a special sickness. He can neither hear nor talk. He lives closed in on himself, not communicating to anyone. He doesn’t know that Jesus is passing near him. It takes others to bring him to the Prophet.

What Jesus does is special also. He doesn’t lay hands on him as they’ve asked, but he takes him away and leads him to a place far from the people. There he works intensely, first on his ears and then on his tongue. He wants the sick man to feel his healing touch. Only a deep encounter with Jesus could heal him of a deafness that is so hard to remove.

It seems that all his efforts are for nothing. The deafness persists. Then Jesus turns to the Father, source of all salvation: looking up to heaven, he sighs and shouts a single word to the sick man: Epphetá, that is, «Be opened». This is the only word Jesus pronounces in the whole story. It’s not directed to the ears of the deaf man, but to his heart.

Undoubtedly Mark wants this word Jesus says to resound forcefully in the Christian communities that will read his story. He knows well how easy it is to go about deaf to God’s Word. Today too there are Christians who don’t open themselves up to the Good News of Jesus or speak to anyone about their faith. Deaf-mute communities who seldom listen to the Gospel and communicate it badly.

Maybe one of the most serious sins of Christians today is this deafness. We don’t stop to listen to Jesus’ Gospel. We don’t live with an open heart to welcome his words. That’s why we don’t know how to listen patiently and compassionately to so many who suffer, those who scarcely receive anyone’s kindness and attention.

Sometimes it’s been said that the Church, born of Jesus to announce his Good News, goes on her merry way, frequently forgetting the concrete life of people’s worries, fears, occupations, and hopes. If we don’t listen well to the calls from Jesus, we won’t put words of hope into the life of those who suffer.

There’s something paradoxical in some of the Church’s reasoning. We say great truths, but don’t touch people’s hearts. Something like this is happening in these times of crisis. Society isn’t waiting for the «religious doctrine» of experts, but does listen attentively to a lucid word inspired by Jesus’ Gospel, when it’s pronounced by a Church that is sensitive to victims who suffer, a Church that knows how to instinctively go out to their defense, inviting everyone to be near to those who most need help to live with dignity.

José Antonio Pagola
Translator: Fr. Jay VonHandorf

Compartir en redes
  • google-share

Idiomas

  • Castellano
  • Euskera
  • Gallego
  • Catalán
  • Inglés
  • Francés
  • Italiano
  • Portugues

Últimas reflexiones

5th Easter – C (John 13,31-33a.34-35)
12/ May/ 2025
4th Easter – C (John 10,27-30)
05/ May/ 2025
3rd Easter – C (John 21,1-19)
28/ Abr/ 2025
2nd Easter – C (John 20,19-32)
21/ Abr/ 2025

Avisos Legales

  • Condiciones de uso
  • Política de privacidad
  • Política de Cookies

Copyright PPC Editorial 2014.
Edición: Editorial PPC | Diseño y desarrollo: PPC Editorial