This Sunday's epistle
teaches us that living faith reveals itself in action. In the gospel, Jesus shows the way:
he welcomes the stranger into the only community that matters – when he listens
to the case made by a worried mother and sees the faith she has put in God, and
when he unlocks the eyes and unchains the voice of a man who cannot speak.
Can
he
free us? Can he lead us to health? Can he open our lips to sing his
praise? Can he open our hands to work in the world as his body, his
people of freedom? You betcha.
Grant us,
O Lord, to trust in you with all our hearts; for, as you always resist the
proud who confide in their own strength, so you never forsake those who make
their boast of your mercy; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns
with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Isaiah 35:4-7a. Psalm 146. James 2:1-10, (11-13), 14-17. Mark 7:24-37. Bproper18
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