Beyond Consanguinity

“Beyond Consanguinity”
A reflection on Luke 14:25-33
Wednesday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang
Couplet revised in 2023

Great crowds were traveling with him, and he turned and addressed them, “If any one comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

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Mystery of Mysteries

“Ultimate Reality 3.0”
A reflection on Matthew 11:27
Sunday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time (Year A)
©️2023 by Gloria M. Chang

All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.

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Trinity Sunday

“Glory Be Doxology”
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
©️2021 by Gloria M. Chang
Andrei Rublev, Icon of the Trinity (15th century)

I bind unto myself the Name,
The strong Name of the Trinity,
By invocation of the same,
The Three in One and One in Three.

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Glory and Love in Trinity

“Glory and Love in Trinity”
John 17:20-26 “in a snailshell”
Thursday of the Seventh Week of Easter
©️2021 by Gloria M. Chang

“I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. 

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I Am Not Alone

“I Am Not Alone”
John 16:32, abridged
Monday of the Seventh Week of Easter
©️2021 by Gloria M. Chang

The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him.

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I Revealed Your Name

“I Revealed Your Name”
A reflection on John 17:1-11a
Seventh Sunday of Easter (Year A)
©️2023 by Gloria M. Chang

Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you, just as you gave him authority over all people, so that your son may give eternal life to all you gave him.

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