Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost

The Gospel reading for the Traditional Latin Mass today, July 27, is St. Mark 7:31-37, the healing of the deaf man.

At that time, Jesus, going out of the coasts of Tyre, came by Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis. And they bring to Him one deaf and dumb, and they besought Him that He would lay His hand upon him.

And taking him from the multitude apart, He put His fingers into his ears, and spitting, He touched his tongue; and looking up to heaven, He groaned and said to him: Ephpheta, that is, Be thou opened: and immediately his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke right.

And He charged them that they should tell no man: but the more He charged them so much the more a great deal did they publish it; and so much the more did they wonder, saying: He hath made all things well; He hath made both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.


Today's introduction to the Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost in my Missal says, "The Church puts her hope in God from whom she receives her help. Our Lord has healed the wounds of mankind and has given us strength. Infinite charity and mercy of God."

Amen.