If You Can!

Faith, Shalom Snail
โ€œIf You Can!โ€
A reflection on Mark 9:23-24 and Luke 1:37
Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ2022 Gloria M. Chang

Jesus said to him, โ€œโ€˜If you can!โ€™ Everything is possible to one who has faith.โ€ Then the boyโ€™s father cried out, โ€œI do believe, help my unbelief!โ€

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Blessed Bartimaeus

โ€œBlessed Bartimaeusโ€
A reflection on Mark 10:46-52
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang


As Jesus was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a sizable crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind man, the son of Timaeus, sat by the roadside begging. On hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, son of David, have pity on me.โ€

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Beelzebul: A Pejorative Pun?

โ€œBeelzebul: A Pejorative Pun?โ€
A reflection on Matthew 12:22-29, Mark 3:22-27, Luke 11:14-23
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang


And if Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself; how, then, will his kingdom stand? And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your own people drive them out?

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The Faith of a Centurion

โ€œThe Faith of a Centurionโ€
Luke 7:1-10 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Monday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

When he had finished all his words to the people, he entered Capernaum. A centurion there had a slave who was ill and about to die, and he was valuable to him.

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Christ Makes Us Whole

โ€œChrist Makes Us Wholeโ€
A reflection on Matthew 9:1-8
Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

He entered a boat, made the crossing, and came into his own town. And there people brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher.

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Premature Publicity

โ€œPremature Publicityโ€
A reflection on Mark 1:40-45
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ2024 Gloria M. Chang

A leper came to Jesus and kneeling down begged him and said, โ€œIf you wish, you can make me clean.โ€ Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, โ€œI do will it.

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