Christ Breaks the Food Chain

โ€œChrist Breaks the Food Chainโ€
A reflection on John 6:51-58
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

Jesus said to the crowds: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”

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I AM the Bread of Life

โ€œI AM the Bread of Life (2 panels)โ€
John 6:35

Sunday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

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A Prophet Like Moses

โ€œA Prophet Like Mosesโ€
A reflection on John 6:1-15
Sunday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

After this, Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee. A large crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick.

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Crushed Like Grapes

โ€œCrushed Like Grapesโ€
A reflection on Mark 12:1-12
Monday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2023 Gloria M. Chang

The Parable of the Tenants

He began to speak to them in parables. โ€œA man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press, and built a tower.

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Born an Original

โ€œBorn an Originalโ€
A reflection on Ephesians 1:3-6 and the wisdom of Blessed Carlo Acutis
Solemnity of Corpus Christi
ยฉ๏ธ2023 Gloria M. Chang

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him. In

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Give Thanks

โ€œGive Thanksโ€
ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang

I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.

Psalm 9:1 (ESV)

Secret to Joy

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Honey From the Rock

โ€œHoney From the Rockโ€
Solemnity of Corpus Christi
Office of Readings, Antiphon 3
Adapted from Psalm 81:16 (17)
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

But Israel I will feed with the finest wheat,
I will satisfy them with honey from the rock.

Psalm 81:16 (17)

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea, and all of them were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. All

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Water and Word

Eucharistic Bread and Fish (Roman Catacombs)

First Week of Lent, Tuesday

Isaiah 55:10-11; Matthew 4:4b; Matthew 6:7-15 

Yet just as from the heavens
the rain and snow come down
And do not return there
till they have watered the earth,
making it fertile and fruitful,
Giving seed to the one who sows
and bread to the one who eats,
So shall my word be
that goes forth from my mouth;
It shall not return to me empty,
but shall do what pleases me,
achieving the end for which I sent it.

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Through the Veil

Icon of Holy Communion

Thursday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time (Year I)

Hebrews 10:19-25

Therefore, brothers, since through the blood of Jesus we have confidence of entrance into the sanctuary by the new and living way he opened for us through the veil, that is, his flesh, and since we have โ€œa great priest over the house of God,” let us approach with a sincere heart and in absolute trust, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.

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