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ened the man and called him harsh names. And they cast him out.
·when Jesus heard what the Pharisees had done to the man whose eyes He had opened, He went out to look for him, and when He found m, He said, '' Dost thou believe in the Son of GodT'' Then the man answered, " o is He, Lord, that I may believe in HimT'' Jesussaidtohim,''ThouhastbothseenHim, and it is He that talketh th thee now." "I believe, Lord,'' said the man who had been bo blind and, falling do , he adored H
Amanwhowasdeafandd bwasbroughttoJesus one day as He was walking along the shores of the Sea of Galilee. His friends begged Jesus to lay His hand upon him and cure him. Taking him apart from the crowd, Jesus put His ngers into his ears and, spitting, He touched his tongue, and looking up to Heaven, He groaned and said to him, "Ephpheta," which is, "Be thou opened.'' And mediately his ears were opened and the string of his tongue was loosed and he co d hear and speak. The people said, "He hath done all things well. He hath made both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak.''
The ceremony used by our Lord when He performed this racle has been adopted by His Church and she has made it part of the rite of Baptism.
One of the most terrible diseases that can come to a human being is leprosy. It is like a living death, and those who su er from it in its worst form actually rot away. Nowadays we have hospitals for lepers, where they receive the best that medical skill can ive them
Ephpheta
Healing the lepers