Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time • Year B
I was watching the news earlier and starting to lose hope. So much violence, hatred, and pain. I am grateful for the mute button on my remote; I don’t have to listen to it – or deal with it. I wonder if the healed man was actually happier now that he could hear everything: not only the songs of the birds, the whisper of the wind, children’s laughter, but also the village gossip, Roman belittlement, rumors of insurrection. You get the idea. Jesus returned the man to full participation in the life of the community – the good, the bad, the ugly.
