Twelfth Sunday After Trinity

This Sunday we hear the account of the man who was deaf and had a speech impediment. He was brought to Jesus that He might heal Him. Jesus took the man aside, put His fingers into the man's ears, and spat and touched His tongue. After Jesus sighed, troubled over the man’s condition, Jesus' said "Ephphatha," opening the man's ears, and loosing his tongue so that he spoke plainly. The crowds speak their praises, “He (Jesus) has done all things well, He (Jesus) makes both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.” We come that we might see what God has done in Christ and that we might consider it rightly.