The Path to Peace

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โ€œThe Path to Peaceโ€
A reflection on Luke 21:20-28
Thursday of the Thirty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2025 Gloria M. Chang

The path to peace leads to final restoration (shalom)โ€”yet it is only reached through millennia of personal, communal, and cosmic growing pains in Godโ€™s unfolding creation.… Read the rest

From Abel to Zechariah

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โ€œFrom Abel to Zechariahโ€
Luke 11:47-54 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Thursday of the Twenty-Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

How does the blood of Abel to Zechariah lead us back to God to accept the redemption offered by Christ?… Read the rest

Christ Unlocks the Kingdom

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โ€œChrist Unlocks the Kingdomโ€
Matthew 23:13-22 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Monday of the Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

โ€œWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You lock the kingdom of heaven before human beings. You do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow entrance to those trying to enter. 

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The Priceless Pearl

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โ€œThe Priceless Pearlโ€
A reflection on Matthew 13:44-46
Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2025 Gloria M. Chang

“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

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Christ Sets Hearts Loose

โ€œChrist Sets Hearts Looseโ€
Luke 11:45-46 and Matthew 11:28-30 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

Then one of the scholars of the law said to him in reply, โ€œTeacher, by saying this you are insulting us too.โ€ And he said, โ€œWoe also to you scholars of the law!

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We’re All Family in Christ

โ€œWe’re All Family in Christโ€
A reflection on Matthew 12:46-50
Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang


While Jesus was speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brothers appeared outside, wishing to speak with him.

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The Annunciation of the Lord

โ€œThe Annunciation of the Lordโ€
A reflection on Luke 1:26-38
Solemnity of the Annunciation
ยฉ๏ธ2023 Gloria M. Chang

In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virginโ€™s name was Mary. And

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