Journey to Wholeness
… Read the restJesus told his disciples this parable: “A man going on a journey called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them.
… Read the restI consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us. For
… Read the restJesus said to his apostles: “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.”
The laws of the Sabbath day, Sabbatical year, and Jubilee year give shape to our total existence as humans interdependent with the land, animals, and plants. Setting aside one day out of seven, one year out of seven, and one year out of seven times seven years to rest from labor, allowing even the land to rest, declares the sovereignty of God and the primacy of worship.… Read the rest
Friday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time (Year I)
Hebrews 10:32-39; Mark 4:26-34
The Word through whom the world came to be knew his creation intimately (John 1:3). Earth, air, soil, and water that composed his own body were fashioned in the beginning by the Spirit of God hovering over the face of the waters (Genesis 1:2).… Read the rest
… Read the restIn times past, God spoke in partial and various ways to our ancestors through the prophets; in these last days, he spoke to us through a son, whom he made heir of all things and through whom he created the universe, who is the refulgence of his glory, the very imprint of his being, and who sustains all things by his mighty word.
“The Eternal Tao (Panels 3 and 4)”
©️2020 by Gloria M. Chang
“The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, chapter 1, translated by Derek Lin
The named is the mother of myriad things”
God is both hidden and manifest (nameless and named) in relationship to spiritual creatures. … Read the rest
“The Eternal Tao (Panels 1 and 2)”
©️2020 by Gloria M. Chang
“The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named is not the eternal name”
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, chapter 1, translated by Derek Lin
Tao is the word used to translate Logos of St.… Read the rest
“The nature of God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere” is an idea often attributed to St. Augustine, but which originated as far back as Empedocles in the 5th century B.C.… Read the rest
Concepts, words, images, and language all derive from spacetime. Concepts about God are like dotted lines attempting to outline formlessness. They take us to the precipice of human knowing beyond which we plunge into docta ignorantia (“learned ignorance”), in the words of the 15th century German philosopher, theologian and mystic Nicholas of Cusa.… Read the rest
