A Camel Through a Needle’s Eye

โ€œA Camel Through a Needleโ€™s Eyeโ€
Matthew 19:23-24 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Tuesday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Then Jesus said to his disciples, โ€œAmen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.

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The Rich Young Man

Snail and coleus speaking the Shalom Snail couplet.
โ€œThe Rich Young Manโ€
Matthew 19:16-22 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Monday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Now someone approached him and said, โ€œTeacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?โ€ He answered him, โ€œWhy do you ask me about the good?

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Lent, Day 9

My soul waits for the Lord, Lent Day 9, Shalom Snail
โ€œLent, Day 9โ€
Psalm 130:6-7 from the Responsorial Psalm
Friday of the First Week of Lent
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang


โ€œThe Lord is my portion,โ€ says my soul, โ€œtherefore I will hope in him.โ€

Lamentations 3:24 (RSV)

My soul waits for the Lord 
more than sentinels wait for the dawn. 

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Lent, Day 8

Ask Seek Knock, Lent Day 8, Shalom Snail
โ€œLent, Day 8โ€
Matthew 7:8
Liturgy of the Hours, Magnificat Antiphon
Thursday of the First Week of Lent
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Jeremiah 29:13 (ESV)

Ask and you shall receive, 
seek and you shall find, 
knock and the door shall be opened to you.

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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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