September 2021

We can meet more often young people, who – like the deaf man from today’s Gospel – need someone, who will touch their eyes, ears, hearts and mind, and then will say “be open”, with the full force and conviction. They come out from such houses and environments, in which they lose trust in the other. They are living in conviction that they are unnecessary to anyone, they are in a state of resignation. Only, when they see that there is another world and people, who thanks to faith, walk through life with joyful heart, they start to think if their life could be different.

What’s happens to the deaf man, whom Christ restores health, recalls a situation of a man, which after years of life emptiness – suddenly discovers that there is another world and other life, which he knows. His ears start to open, the tongue starts to talk, and – using the words of today’s Gospel – he starts to “speak correctly”.

If the expression “to speak correctly” can be use as a kind of summary of this change within a man, one could say that it affects the essence of human life. As long as we remain in darkness, in the wrong environment, or even in a bad situation, we say and think different than God wants. Only when we may leave and go a little bit behind the current state of affairs, we see that there is another world, where is a completely different life.

Let the Gospel to be read today in our churches leads us in two directions. First of all, let us ask ourselves, if we don’t need a completely new opening on God and the other man. Secondly, let us try to see people, who expect someone who will bring them to Jesus, and they could hear a simple, but firm call “open up”.