With God All Things Are Possible

โ€œFor God All Things Are Possibleโ€
Mark 10:17-30 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

As Jesus was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, โ€œGood Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?โ€ And

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You Were Once Aliens

โ€œYou Were Once Aliensโ€
A reflection on Exodus 22:21(20) and Matthew 22:34-40
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
ยฉ๏ธ2023 Gloria M. Chang

Thus says the LORD: “You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.โ€

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God’s Irrevocable Call

โ€œGodโ€™s Irrevocable Callโ€
A reflection on Romans 11:13-15, 29-32; Genesis 17:4-7
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
ยฉ๏ธ2023 Gloria M. Chang

Brothers and sisters: I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I glory in my ministry in order to make my race jealous and thus save some of them.

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Fire-Tried Gold

Fiery furnace by Toros Roslin, Mashtots, 1266 (MS No. 2027, Fol. 14 V.)

Fifth Week of Lent, Wednesday

Daniel 3

Iconic images and words in the Bible interconnect to form a constellation that radiates to the โ€œedgesโ€ of infinity. The episode of the three Jews thrown into a fiery furnace for refusing to bow down to Nebuchadnezzarโ€™s golden image summons iconic connections from Genesis to Revelation.… Read the rest

Indestructible Covenant

Fiery furnace by Toros Roslin, Mashtots, 1266 (MS No. 2027, Fol. 14 V.)

Third Week of Lent, Tuesday

Daniel 3:25, 34-43

Shadrach (Hananiah), Meshach (Mishael), Abednego (Azariah), and Belteshazzar (Daniel) managed to preserve their Israelite heritage intact in the midst of Babylonian power and prestige.… Read the rest

Jubilee, Day 9

โ€œJubilee, Day 9โ€
ยฉ๏ธ2021 by Gloria M. Chang

This Jubilee series began with wonder about the inscription on the Liberty Bell at the Pennsylvania State House from Leviticus 25:10: “Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants thereof.”

Biblical freedom has as its final aim liberation from slavery to sin and communion with God, and thus ultimately transcends this world and its political systems.… Read the rest

Jubilee, Day 8

โ€œJubilee, Day 8โ€
ยฉ๏ธ2021 by Gloria M. Chang

You shall count seven weeks of yearsโ€”seven times seven yearsโ€”such that the seven weeks of years amount to forty-nine years.ย Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month let the ramโ€™s horn resound; on this, the Day of Atonement, the ramโ€™s horn blast shall resound throughout your land.ย 

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Bread of Shalom

Christina DeMichele, Christ Enthroned in His Creation (Used with permission)

Thursday of the Third Week of Easter

John 6:44-51

The Jews murmured about him because he said, โ€œI am the bread that came down from heaven,โ€ and they said, โ€œIs this not Jesus, the son of Joseph?

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Sealed by God

Christ Pantocrator, 13th century Serbian icon

Monday of the Third Week of Easter

John 6:22-29

The next day, the crowd that remained across the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not gone along with his disciples in the boat, but only his disciples had left.

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