“Looking up to heaven [Jesus] and said… “Ephatha,” that is, “Be opened” (Mk. 7).

The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young, Dean

Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2E58

16 Pentecost (Proper 18B) 11:00 a.m. Eucharist Sunday

8 September 2024, Congregation Sunday

Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23

Psalm 125

James 2:1-10, (11-13), 14-17

Mark 7:24-37

How can we open ourselves to God? When we go beyond the way others experience us, beyond who we think we are, we will encounter God. Today I am going to offer two pictures of this openness the first from Mark’s story of the Syrophoenician mother and the second from the ancient Book of Proverbs.