Sent from the Father

Photo of snail and a tulip speaking about the one sent from the Father in John 12:44: "Whoever believes in me believes in the one who sent me."
โ€œSent from the Fatherโ€
John 12:44 (abridged)
Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Whoever receives you receives me,
and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.

Matthew 10:40

Whoever believes in me
believes in the one who sent me.

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No One Can Take My Sheep

A snail and orange-red tulips speak John 10:29-30: "No one can take my sheep out of the Father's hand. The Father and I are one."
โ€œNo One Can Take My Sheepโ€
Adapted from John 10:29-30
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I will lay down my life for the sheep.

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My Father’s Will

A snail and pear blossoms speak John 6:38: "I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me."
โ€œMy Fatherโ€™s Willโ€
John 6:38
Wednesday of the Third Week of Easter
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him on the last day.โ€

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Go to My Brothers

Two snails and a tulip outside a cave speak John 20:17: "Go to my brothers and tell them, I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."
โ€œGo to My Brothersโ€
John 20:17b
Tuesday within the Octave of Easter
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

โ€œI will be with you only a little while longer,
and then I will go to the one who sent me.

John 7:33

Go to my brothers and tell them,
I am going to my Father and your Father,
to my God and your God.

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True Blessedness

Photo of snail and autumn crocus with text overlay of the Shalom Snail couplet, "True Blessedness."
โ€œTrue Blessednessโ€
Luke 11:27-28 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Saturday of the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

True blessedness lies in hearing and keeping Godโ€™s word, as exemplified by the Blessed Virgin Mary.

As he said this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, โ€œBlessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you sucked!โ€ย 

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The Twelve Apostles

Photo of snail and pansies with the Shalom Snail couplet printed beneath.
โ€œThe Twelve Apostlesโ€
Luke 6:12-16 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Tuesday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

In those days he departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called a Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

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