https://freerepublic.com/tag/deafpope/ en-us Sun, 5 Sep 2021 23:14:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3992213/posts Pope at Angelus: Healing of the heart begins with listeningRecalling the today’s Gospel reading which presents Jesus who heals a deaf man with a speech impediment, Pope Francis observed the many actions Jesus took in healing him: putting his finger into the man’s ears, touching his tong with saliva and looking up to heaven and then saying to him “Ephphatha”, that is, “Be opened!”. Perhaps, the Pope suggested, it was because the man’s condition of deafness had a special symbolic value and can say something to all of us, since we all have ears, but “very often we are not... Vatican News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3992213/posts#comment Sun, 5 Sep 2021 23:14:21 GMT