Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Deaf and Mute, Mark 7.31-37

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What are we to make of Jesus’ healing of a deaf and mute man? Is there more to it than the not so simple healing? Can we relate to this story and apply it to ourselves? Father Jeremiah considers these questions and brings this story to bear upon us today.

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