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Let the Children Come to Me

Photo of snail amid verbena speaking the Shalom Snail couplet.
“Let the Children Come to Me”
Matthew 19:13-15 “in a snailshell”
Saturday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang

Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked them, but Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

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Children of Mary

Children of Mary, Shalom Snail
“Children of Mary”
A reflection on Luke 1:39-45 and Mark 10:13-16
Saturday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
©2022 Gloria M. Chang

In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a city of Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. And

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We Are Our Neighbors’ Keepers

“We Are Our Neighbors’ Keepers”
Mark 9:42-48 in a “snailshell”
Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang

“Whoever 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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