Paul’s Swan Song

Photo of snail and dahlia with text overlay of the Shalom Snail couplet, "Paul's Swan Song."
โ€œPaulโ€™s Swan Songโ€
2 Timothy 4:6 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang

How does Paulโ€™s Swan Song reveal the heart of a disciple ready to meet his Lord face to face?

For I am already being poured out like a libation, and the time of my departure is at hand. 

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More Powerful Than Atoms

Photo of a snail with a silphium flower with text overlay of the Shalom Snail poem, "More Powerful Than Atoms."
โ€œMore Powerful Than Atomsโ€
A reflection on Luke 17:5-6
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang

Faith the size of a mustard seed, more powerful than atoms, can unite us with Jesus Christ and accomplish the impossible, surpassing the immense energy contained in the tiniest particles of matter.… Read the rest

A Mustard Seed of Faith

โ€œA Mustard Seed of Faithโ€
Matthew 17:14-20 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Saturday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

When they came to the crowd a man approached, knelt down before him, and said, โ€œLord, have pity on my son, for he is a lunatic and suffers severely; often he falls into fire, and often into water.

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Walking on Water with Jesus

Photo of tulips and a snail speaking the poem, "Walking on Water with Jesus."
โ€œWalking on Water with Jesusโ€
Matthew 14:22-33 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Tuesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Then he made the disciples get into the boat and precede him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds.

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Christ the King of the Cosmos

โ€œChrist the King of the Cosmosโ€
A reflection on Matthew 8:23-27
Tuesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang

As Jesus got into a boat, his disciples followed him. Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by waves; but he was asleep. They

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Lent, Day 29

Two snails moving on a mossy path recite Psalm 23:4, "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for you are with me."
โ€œLent, Day 29โ€
Psalm 23:4 from the Responsorial Psalm
Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

โ€œLet not your hearts be troubled;
believe in God, believe also in me.โ€

John 14:1

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil, for you are with me.

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If You Can!

Faith, Shalom Snail
โ€œIf You Can!โ€
A reflection on Mark 9:23-24 and Luke 1:37
Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ2022 Gloria M. Chang

Jesus said to him, โ€œโ€˜If you can!โ€™ Everything is possible to one who has faith.โ€ Then the boyโ€™s father cried out, โ€œI do believe, help my unbelief!โ€

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