GOSPEL
He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.
Reading from the holy Gospel according to Saint Mark 7:31-37
Again Jesus left the district of Tyre
and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee,
into the district of the Decapolis.
And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment
and begged him to lay his hand on him.
He took him off by himself away from the crowd.
He put his finger into the man’s ears
and, spitting, touched his tongue;
then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him,
“Ephphatha!”— that is, “Be opened!” —
And immediately the man’s ears were opened,
his speech impediment was removed,
and he spoke plainly.
He ordered them not to tell anyone.
But the more he ordered them not to,
the more they proclaimed it.
They were exceedingly astonished and they said,
“He has done all things well.
He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”
Word of the Lord.
My “leitmotif”
The things of God are closed to the eyes of man. But Christ, who is the Word of God, opens our eyes and ears to see and understand. He leaves us His Spirit to give us the intelligence, wisdom, knowledge… necessary to see by faith the supernatural world that runs parallel to the natural world we see with our senses. We have received the grace to see Marriage as God intended it, and when you see that other way of living, that other dimension that surpasses us on all sides, you no longer want anything else.
Grounded in Married Life:
Leti: I consider myself a citizen of heaven, and you, Luis?
Luis: Completely. My Father is God, my Mother is the Virgin, my mystical Husband is Christ… My laws are the laws of God, I try to make my justice divine, my leitmotif is you for the greater glory of God, and my driving force is the love of charity. I always say you are my “leitmotif” hahaha. All of this has transformed my marriage with you, my way of facing difficulties, my work… absolutely everything.
Leti: I only have eyes for the Lord. I am only interested in His plans and His things. I am in His Heart and I feel pain for what pains Him, and I love more and more from His Heart, as He loves. And you are so much in His Heart… It’s wonderful to see life this way.
Luis: A wonder that we are sharing together, Leti. You help me so much to live as God wants.
Leti: And you help me.
Mother,
In Your Immaculate Heart, we want to be, because no one knows better than You how to be in the Heart of Christ. Blessed be He forever.