Following in the Footsteps of Jesus: Meditations on the Gospels for Year B (Biblia.com)

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This personal meditation on the words of Jesus transforms us—more than all the explanations, sermons, and exhortations we read elsewhere, which reach us from the outside. People change from within. Jesus’s words reach within us to transform us unlike any other force. Perhaps this is one of the most serious problems of our religion: too frequently it is not the vital sap of Jesus that passes...

contact with Jesus. Faith in Jesus Christ is born and grows in that relationship with him. Jesus works intensely on the man’s ears and tongue. But it is not enough. The man also has to cooperate. So Jesus, after raising his eyes to heaven in a gesture seeking his Father’s healing action, speaks aloud for the deaf man to hear the first word that everyone must hear who is deaf to Jesus and to the gospel: «Be opened». We urgently need to listen to this call of Jesus even today. These are not the easiest

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