
Matthew 11:28-30 โin a snailshellโ
Thursday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang (Revised in 2024)
Gospel
Matthew 11:28-30
โCome to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.… Read the rest

Journey to Wholeness

โCome to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.… Read the rest

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

Beholding the Father in the Son draws us into the heart of Jesusโ revelation.
โDo not let your hearts be troubled.… Read the rest

… Read the restJesus said: โMy sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish.

… Read the restThen many of his disciples who were listening said, โThis saying is hard; who can accept it?โ Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, โDoes this shock you?

… 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.

Monday of the First Week in Ordinary Time (Year I)
Hebrews 1:1-6; Psalm 97
… 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.

21st Week in Ordinary Time, Tuesday (Year II)
Matthew 23:23-26
Jesus said: โWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity.… Read the rest

Feast of St. James
Matthew 20:20-28
What does the kingdom of heaven look like? Jesus never described it in precise scientific or geographical terms suited to the spatiotemporal domain, but always with suggestive images. Like the attempts of the Sphere to describe the third dimension to a two-dimensional Square in Edwin Abbottโs novel, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, unimaginable depths are lost in translation when communicating divine realities in 4-D linguistics.… Read the rest

Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter
John 14:1-6
Facing his impending death, Jesus comforted his disciples, saying, โDo not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me.โ… Read the rest