We Are Our Neighbors’ Keepers

โ€œWe Are Our Neighborsโ€™ Keepersโ€
Mark 9:42-48 in a โ€œsnailshellโ€
Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

โ€œWhoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. If

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Re-Creation of Adam

โ€œRe-Creation of Adamโ€
The Baptism of the Lord (Year B)
A reflection on Mark 1:7-11
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

This is what John the Baptist proclaimed: โ€œOne mightier than I is coming after me. I am not worthy to stoop and loosen the thongs of his sandals.

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Friend, Go Up Higher

โ€œFriend, Go Up Higherโ€
Luke 14:7-11 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Saturday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. 

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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

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

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Like Sparrows

โ€œLike Sparrowsโ€
A reflection on Matthew 10:29-31
Sunday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time (Year A)
ยฉ๏ธ2023 by Gloria M. Chang

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even

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Jubilee, Day 6

โ€œJubilee, Day 6โ€
ยฉ๏ธ2021 by Gloria M. Chang

But during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath of complete rest, a sabbath for the Lord, when you may neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard. The aftergrowth of your harvest you shall not reap, nor shall you pick the grapes of your untrimmed vines.

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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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Drinking Poison

Thursday after Ash Wednesday 

Deuteronomy 30:15-20; Luke 9:22-25

The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.

Genesis 2:15 (RSV)

Adam, priest and king of the Lordโ€™s garden sanctuary, had the duty โ€œto till it and keep it.” … Read the rest