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lacking a real relationship with God. The world is becoming less human, and God more
unknown, because there are so few people with the ability to listen and the will to com-
municate. Are we becoming spiritually deaf and mute? We need to take the command of
Jesus, ˈBe opened,ˉ as if it were addressed to us. He wants to make us people capable
of listening and believing, and able to communicate with others.
As disciples of Jesus we have a task to heal our community, beginning at the root of the
problem, our inability to communicate. We should be like those people who brought the
deaf mute to Jesus without waiting for the man to ask to be healed. In doing so they
saved him from his silence and inability to communicate. When he was healed, the deaf
mute told everybody what had happened to him, even though Jesus had ordered him to
keep quiet about it. He could not remain silent about what Jesus had done for him be-
cause he knew that what he had received did not belong to him. His personal experience
became the subject of his preaching and his reason for proclaiming Jesus. Speaking
about what God does in our lives frees us from our silence and enables us to open up to
others. Today as in the past, anyone who has an experience of God must not remain si-
lent. We need to be a community who are able to communicate, who will share and are
ready to listen. We need to be a community of believers who will build a Church where
everyone can hear the Word and where everyone is welcome. As Isaiah proclaims, ˈBe
strong, fear not! Here is your God...with divine recompense he comes to save you.ˉ
P
RAYER
Eternal Father,
we praise you for sending your Son
to be one of us and to save us.
Look upon your people with mercy,
for we are divided in so many ways,
and give us the Spirit of Jesus to make us one in
love.
We ask this gift, loving Father, through Jesus
Christ our Lord
Amen.
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Ramón B. Barreras, Ph.D.
Education Formation Commission
RCIA Dismissal Ministry