Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)

St. Mark 7.31-37: "They brought to him a man who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hands on him...Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, "Ephphatha", that is, "Be opened". And immediately the man's eyes were opened, his tongue was released and he could speak plainly."

Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)

St. Mark 7.1-8,14-15,21-23: "There is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile them, but the things that come out of a person are what defile them".