From Aleph to Tav

โ€œFrom Aleph to Tavโ€
Mark 12:28-34 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Readings:

Deuteronomy 6:2-6 
Hebrews 7:23-28
Mark 12:28-34

Blueprint for Freedom

After the exodus from Egypt and its polytheistic culture, Moses leads the Israelites into the wilderness to begin a long journey of divine pedagogy and discipline.… Read the rest

A Blooming Arrow

Photo of snail, anemone, and dahlia with text overlay of the Shalom Snail couplet, "A Blooming Arrow."
โ€œA Blooming Arrowโ€
A reflection on Ephesians 2:1-10
Monday of the Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time (Year II)
ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang

How does Godโ€™s love draw us toward him as his blooming arrow for eternity?

You were dead in your transgressions and sins in which you once lived following the age of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the disobedient. All

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More Than a Medicine Man

โ€œMore Than a Medicine Manโ€
A reflection on Mark 1:29-39
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ2024 Gloria M. Chang

On leaving the synagogue Jesus entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John. Simon’s mother-in-law lay sick with a fever.

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A Blazing Babe

โ€œA Blazing Babeโ€
A reflection on Deuteronomy 18:15-20
Sunday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ2024 Gloria M. Chang

Moses spoke to all the people, saying: “A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you from among your own kin; to him you shall listen.

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You Were Once Aliens

โ€œYou Were Once Aliensโ€
A reflection on Exodus 22:21(20) and Matthew 22:34-40
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
ยฉ๏ธ2023 Gloria M. Chang

Thus says the LORD: “You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.โ€

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Mercy Frees the Heart

โ€œMercy Frees the Heartโ€
A reflection on Sirach 27:30-28:7 and Matthew 18:21-35
Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
ยฉ๏ธ2023 Gloria M. Chang

Wrath and anger, these also are abominations,
yet a sinner holds on to them. 

The vengeful will face the Lordโ€™s vengeance;
indeed he remembers their sins in detail.

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