PW S. Skolastika, Virgin
First Reading Genesis 3: 1-8
Snake is the most cunning of all the animals on the land which the Lord God made. The serpent said to the woman, "Indeed, has God said,
'All the trees in the garden, Ye shall not eat, do not you? "
The woman replied, "The fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat. But the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God said: Do you eat or touch the fruit, or you'll die."
But the serpent said to the woman, "You surely will not die!
For God knows that when you eat it, your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. "When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and savory seems, after all, the tree was attractive because gives light. So he took of the fruit, then eat, and gave also to her husband with her;
and her husband eat. Then the eyes of both of them,
and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. When they heard the footsteps of God, which is a walk in the garden in the cool of the day,
man and his wife hid themselves from the Lord God among the trees in the garden.
Thus saith the Lord.
Psalm Ps 32: 1-2.5.6.7
Blessed, whose transgression is forgiven.
* Blessed are those whose transgressions are forgiven, and his sins are covered! Blessed, the mistake was not counted the Lord, and not soulless cheater!
* Finally, I express my sins to You and not hide my iniquity; I said "I will go to God and confess all my transgressions." So you've forgiven my mistakes.
* Therefore let all the godly pray to Thee, while overwritten distress; despite the great flood happened, he will not be knocked.
* You are hiding me, O Lord! You look after the distress you protect me, so I escaped and cheered.
Introduction to Gospel Acts 16: 14b
O God, open our hearts, so that we pay attention to the words of your Son.
Gospel reading Mark 7: 31-37
At that time Jesus left the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. Some people brought to him a deaf and stuttering and begged Jesus to lay his hands on him. So him aside from the crowd,
so that they are alone. Then he put his fingers into his ears, and spat and touched his tongue. Then he looked up to heaven Jesus sighed and said to him,
"Effata!", Meaning: Be opened! Then the man's ear and immediately it apart precisely his tongue, and he spoke plainly.
Jesus ordered the people who were there orders not to tell anyone. But his increasingly banned them, the more widely they proclaimed it. They were amazed and astonished, saying, "He makes everything better! That made him deaf to hear, the dumb made him talk."
Thus the Gospel of the Lord.
Devotional.
Deaf and dumb people can not hear the other and can not express ideas and feelings to others normally. He is difficult to express himself as a human being full.
In the Gospel, Jesus healed the deaf and dumb. Conceivably, the healed man must be very merry. He began to hear and speak with others, can communicate with others. He can better express themselves well. In general, men by Jesus humanized, elevated by one rank.
We sometimes also experience the deaf and dumb, deaf and dumb to our neighbor to others. We did not hear the screams of others who need our attention. We are closed to our neighbor. We too often deaf to the word of God himself who would greet us. God approached us with his word and wants us happy, we did not listen. Sometimes we are too dumb to God, can not answer the word of God given to us. Our hearts are closed to God, for the love of God wants to save us. Our hearts are closed to God, for the love of God wants to save us. So we often feel unhappy, no peace, no joy. Let us ask that we be healed and touched by God in order not deaf and dumb towards God and our neighbor.
Item contemplation.
Goodness of God is universal goodness. This means that the goodness of God and the work of salvation - His salvation is for all mankind. It is essential that people who believe in God gives himself to be guided by God's universal goodness and proclaim through deeds and words exactly as intended - his. Odds are that the goodness of God it claimed only for yourself or your own group. Perhaps this is due to immaturity in the faith so that tidk sdar used as a benchmark to claim unilaterally kemurhan the universal divine heart. People not believe and live like God but make God into a dwarf like selfishness and his way of thinking.
In today's Gospel we hear Jesus went to the stricken Decapolis. This is not the territory of Israel but the area is regarded as infidels or not including a Jewish fraternity. There, Jesus performed a miracle by healing a deaf and stuttering. The claim of the Jews at the time, should Jesus did not heal him, because he is a foreigner, not a Jew. But Jesus broke the narrow confines of the safety claims that, as human beings, who deserve a touch of God's salvation. God's goodness is universal. Therefore we should not limit God's goodness just for its own sake or just for a group or tribe itself. We who believe in Jesus must proclaim the love of Jesus to anyone, especially small and special needs. It is wrong and sinful if we limit God's goodness as though the goodness of God as if God's goodness it was only for ourselves when the goodness of God is universal.
Prayer.
O Lord, open our eyes to always look and preach love and kindness - Mu which is open to everyone. Amen.
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