The Gospel tells us that Jesus put his fingers in the ears of the deaf-mute, touched the sick man’s tongue with spittle and said “Ephphatha” -“Be opened .“ The evangelist has preserved for us the original Aramaic word which Jesus spoke, and thus he brings us back to that very moment.
What happened then was unique, but it does not belong to a distant past: Jesus continues to do the same thing a new, even today. At our Baptism he touched each of us and said “Ephphatha”-“Be opened,” thus enabling us to hear God’s voice and to be able to talk to him.
Fr. Bassols Imo Donald 