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Rend Your Heart, Not Your Garments

Photo of snail and balloon flower with text overlay of the poem, "Rend Your Hearts, Not Your Garments."
“Rend Your Heart, Not Your Garments”
A reflection on Joel 2:12-18 and Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18
Ash Wednesday
©️2026 Gloria M. Chang

Rend your heart, not your garments: discover the hidden treasures of Lent in secret prayer, fasting, and mercy.

First Reading

Joel 2:12-18

Even now, says the LORD,
return to me with your whole heart,
with fasting, and weeping, and mourning;
Rend your hearts, not your garments,
and return to the LORD, your God.… Read the rest

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The Bridegroom and His Guests

Photo of snail amid cleome hassleriana with the Shalom Snail couplet printed.
“The Bridegroom and His Guests”
Luke 5:33-39 “in a snailshell”
Friday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang

And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same; but yours eat and drink.”

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