9/9/18 23rd Sunday in Ordinary time - Fr. Tom King

MK 7:31-37  "He took him off by himself away from the crowd. He put his finger into the man’s ears
and, spitting, touched his tongue; then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him, 'Ephphatha!'— that is, 'Be opened!' — And immediately the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly."