We’re All Family in Christ

โ€œWe’re All Family in Christโ€
A reflection on Matthew 12:46-50
Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang


While Jesus was speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brothers appeared outside, wishing to speak with him.

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Momentary Affliction

โ€œMomentary Afflictionsโ€
A reflection on 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1
Sunday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

Brothers and sisters: Since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, I believed, therefore I spoke, we too believe and therefore we speak, knowing that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and place us with you in his presence.

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Trinity Sunday

โ€œGlory Be Doxologyโ€
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
ยฉ๏ธ2021 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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I AM the True Vine

โ€œI AM the True Vineโ€
John 15:1
Fifth Sunday of Easter (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

You brought a vine out of Egypt;
you drove out nations and planted it.

Psalm 80:8 (9)

I AM the true vine,
and my Father is the vine grower.

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One Father in Heaven

โ€œOne Father in Heavenโ€
A reflection on Malachi 2:10 and Matthew 23:9-10
Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
ยฉ๏ธ2023 Gloria M. Chang

A great King am I, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.

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Mystery of Mysteries

โ€œUltimate Reality 3.0โ€
A reflection on Matthew 11:27
Sunday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time (Year A)
ยฉ๏ธ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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Lamps in the Light

Fourth Week of Lent, Thursday

Exodus 32:7-14; John 5:31-47 

He was a burning and shining lamp, and for a while you were content to rejoice in his light. But I have testimony greater than Johnโ€™s. The works that the Father gave me to accomplish, these works that I perform testify on my behalf that the Father has sent meโ€ฆ For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me.

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Love Never Fails

โ€œLove Never Failsโ€
A reflection on 1 Corinthians 13
Sunday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time (Year C)
ยฉ2022 by Gloria M. Chang

Brothers and sisters: Strive eagerly for the greatest spiritual gifts. But I shall show you a still more excellent way.

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The Cross and the Beatitudes

10th Week in Ordinary Time, Monday (Year I)

2 Corinthians 1:1-7; Matthew 5:1-12

A single teardrop from God could wash away the sins of the world, but the Father gave his only-begotten Son to the last drop of blood.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and God of all encouragement, who encourages us in our every affliction, so that we may be able to encourage those who are in any affliction with the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged by God.

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The Father’s Face

Russian icon, The Mystical Supper (early 14th century). Fresco in Vatopedi Monastery, Mt. Athos.

Saturday of the Fourth Week of Easter

John 14:7-14

If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him.

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