Mass Readings: Genesis 3:1-8/Mark 7:31-37
When the
crowd exclaims, “He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak,” they are
referencing a passage from Isaiah describing Israel’s deliverance. Deliverance
had different meanings to different people back then, as it does today. In Jesus’ time, deliverance from Rome was one
of the deepest desires of the Jewish people. As Messiah, Jesus is certainly the
deliverer, but ending Roman rule was not Jesus’ mission. Besides being freed
from foreign, rule one could be delivered from deafness, blindness, disability,
or disease. One can also be delivered from sin and death.
All that
holds us “captive”—addiction, ill treatment, sickness, unhealthy relationships
and more—flows from Original Sin. Only in Jesus, the promised Redeemer, and in
his Church can we find the deliverance we all seek.
Prayer:
Deliver us, Lord, from all that holds us captive.
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