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He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak" (Mark 7:37). . . .
Is not being deaf and mute, that is, being unable either to listen or to speak, a sign of a lack of communion and a symptom of division? Division and the inability to communicate, a consequence of sin, are contrary to God’s plan… . The words “He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak” are good news that proclaim the coming of the kingdom of God and the healing of the inability to communicate and of division. This message is rediscovered in all of Jesus’ preaching and work. Wherever he went, whether traveling through villages, cities, or the countryside, the people “laid the sick in the market places, and besought him that they might touch even the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched it were made well” (Mark 6:56).
The healing of the…
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