Reading: 1 Kings 11:29-32; 12:19 Mark 7:31-37Drawing Near: In today’s Gospel, I speak the word ephphata—“Be opened”—and heal a man’s speech impediment and limited hearing. Hear me say “Ephphatha” to you today so that I might open that which is tightly closed in you.
Feast: The Memorial of St. Scholastica, virgin
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