hear the gospel, we need to ask “Who are we in the narrative?” We could be the bereaved widow or we could be the paralytic who needed forgiveness more than healing. But we can grow in understanding the relationship between the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist when we identify with the crowd, the people who see and hear Jesus and give thanks and praise to God. The word is so sacred that it has a special place which is called the ambo. “Ambo” is