Divine Bread, Broken for All

A snail on a red tulip reflects on Corpus Christi with this poem: God invisible, Wholly indivisible, Becomes, in Christ, edible, Partible, digestible, Forming the Church visible!
โ€œDivine Bread, Broken for Allโ€
A reflection on 1 Corinthians 10:17
Solemnity of Corpus Christi
ยฉ๏ธ2025 Gloria M. Chang

Because the loaf of bread is one, we, though many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.

1 Corinthians 10:17
Coptic icon of Christ feeding the multitude


For what is the bread?

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Our Father Makes Us One

A snail and a variety of tulips reflect on the Holy Trinity: "Our Father begets the Son, / Sends the Spirit and makes us one."
โ€œOur Father Makes Us Oneโ€
A reflection on Catechism of the Catholic Church 2789
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
ยฉ๏ธ2025 Gloria M. Chang

Our Father unites us as one in the eternal communion of the Trinity.

Catechism of the Catholic Church 2789

When we pray to “our” Father, we personally address the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.… Read the rest

The New Jerusalem

A snail and a tulip reflect on Revelation 21:23: "No sun or moon will shine in the new Yerushalaim / For the Lamb will be our lamp beyond transient time."
โ€œThe New Jerusalemโ€
A reflection on Revelation 21:23
Sixth Sunday of Easter (Year C)
ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang

Yerushalaim is the transliteration of Jerusalem. Click phonetics for the pronunciation of Yerushalaim.


He took me in spirit to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God. It

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Bread of the Trinity

โ€œBread of the Trinityโ€
A reflection on John 6:60-69
Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

Then many of his disciples who were listening said, โ€œThis saying is hard; who can accept it?โ€ Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, โ€œDoes this shock you?

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Unbreakable Bonds

โ€œUnbreakable Bondsโ€
A reflection on Matthew 10:37
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
ยฉ๏ธ2023 by Gloria M. Chang

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€

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The True Light

โ€œThe True Lightโ€
1 John 2:8b
Meditation on Light, Series I, Day 4
ยฉ๏ธ2020 by Gloria M. Chang

The darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.

1 John 2:8b

Light and Love Incarnate

Born anew in Christ and enlivened by the Holy Spirit, children of God walk in the light.… Read the rest

God is Light

โ€œGod is Lightโ€
1 John 1:5
Meditation on Light, Series I, Day 3
ยฉ๏ธ2020 by Gloria M. Chang

God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

1 John 1:5

Communion of Light and Love

Godโ€™s very being is light; departure from him is darkness.… Read the rest

Children of the Father

Mosaic of the Sermon on the Mount (Ravenna, Italy)

23rd Week in Ordinary Time, Thursday (Year II)

Luke 6:27-38

Jesus said to his disciples: โ€œTo you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat youโ€ฆ Be merciful, just as also your Father is merciful.โ€Read the rest

Language and Religion

20th Week in Ordinary Time, Wednesday (Year II)

โ€œThus, the last will be first, and the first will be last.โ€

Matthew 20:16

What is the foundation of the concepts โ€œfirstโ€ and โ€œlastโ€?

โ€œFirstโ€ is derived from one. One is derived from two.… Read the rest