Planetary Peace

โ€œPlanetary Peaceโ€
A reflection on Romans 8:18-23
Sunday of the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
ยฉ๏ธ2023 Gloria M. Chang

Second Reading

Romans 8:18-23

I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us.ย … Read the rest

Mystery of Mysteries

Photo of snail and black-eyed susans speaking the couplet reflecting on Matthew 11:27: "Who knows the Father and the Son? Unless God reveals himself, none!"
โ€œUltimate Reality 3.0โ€
A reflection on Matthew 11:27
Sunday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time (Year A)
ยฉ๏ธ2023 Gloria M. Chang

Gospel

Matthew 11:27

All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.… Read the rest

Faithful Friends

Photo of 3 snails on a hydrangea with text overlay of the couplet reflecting on Matthew 9:2: "The faith of friends, / Heaven's will bends."
โ€œFaithful Friendsโ€
A reflection on Matthew 9:2
Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 (revised in 2024) Gloria M. Chang

Gospel

Matthew 9:1-8

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.… Read the rest

Unbreakable Bonds

Photo of snail and red bleeding hearts with text overlay of the couplet reflecting on Matthew 10:37: "Tribal ties are externally woven; / Trinitarian bonds cannot be broken."
โ€œUnbreakable Bondsโ€
A reflection on Matthew 10:37
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
ยฉ๏ธ2023 Gloria M. Chang

Gospel

Matthew 10:37

Jesus 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.โ€… Read the rest

The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Photo of snail and white bleeding hearts with text overlay of the couplet, "Finding Jesus in the Father's heart, Mary kept him in her mother's heart."
โ€œAnd his mother kept all these things in her heartโ€
A reflection on Luke 2:49-51
Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Gospel

Luke 2:41-51

Each year Jesusโ€™ parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom.… Read the rest

Divine Bread, Broken for All

A snail on a red tulip reflects on Corpus Christi with this poem: God invisible, Wholly indivisible, Becomes, in Christ, edible, Partible, digestible, Forming the Church visible!
โ€œDivine Bread, Broken for Allโ€
A reflection on 1 Corinthians 10:17
Solemnity of Corpus Christi
ยฉ๏ธ2025 Gloria M. Chang

Because the loaf of bread is one, we, though many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.

1 Corinthians 10:17
Coptic icon of Christ feeding the multitude


For what is the bread?

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David’s Messianic Prophecy

Photo of snail and tulip speaking the couplet, "By the Spirit of the Lord, David called his son "Lord."
โ€œDavidโ€™s Messianic Prophecyโ€
Mark 12:35-37 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Friday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Gospel

Mark 12:35-37

As Jesus was teaching in the temple area he said, โ€œHow do the scribes claim that the Messiah is the son of David?… Read the rest

Resurrected Saints Shall Fly

Photo of snail and snowmound spirea shrub speaking the couplet, "Resurrected saints shall fly like angels in paradise!"
โ€œResurrected Saints Shall Flyโ€
Mark 12:18-27 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Wednesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Gospel

Mark 12:18-27

Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and put this question to him, saying, โ€œTeacher, Moses wrote for us, โ€˜If someoneโ€™s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.โ€™… Read the rest

Our Father Makes Us One

A snail and a variety of tulips reflect on the Holy Trinity: "Our Father begets the Son, / Sends the Spirit and makes us one."
โ€œOur Father Makes Us Oneโ€
A reflection on Catechism of the Catholic Church 2789
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
ยฉ๏ธ2025 Gloria M. Chang

Our Father unites us as one in the eternal communion of the Trinity.

Catechism of the Catholic Church 2789

When we pray to “our” Father, we personally address the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.… Read the rest