The morning of the last full day at the Samadi retreat center, I presided at the morning mass.
Before the mass began, I explained that I would be using American Sign Language.
The gospel was about Jesus healing a man with a paralyzed hand and four deaf people, from Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Hong Kong, helped act it out.
Role playing, as in the gospel reading, is a common part of deaf culture.
Two deaf people from Sri Lanka brought forward the bread and wine we used for the celebration of the eucharist.
