Christ Sets Hearts Loose

โ€œChrist Sets Hearts Looseโ€
Luke 11:45-46 and Matthew 11:28-30 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

Then one of the scholars of the law said to him in reply, โ€œTeacher, by saying this you are insulting us too.โ€ And he said, โ€œWoe also to you scholars of the law!

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We Are Our Neighbors’ Keepers

โ€œWe Are Our Neighborsโ€™ Keepersโ€
Mark 9:42-48 in a โ€œsnailshellโ€
Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

โ€œWhoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. If

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No Greater Love

โ€œNo Greater Loveโ€
John 15:13
Sixth Sunday of Easter (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

John 10:11

Greater love has no one than this: 
to lay down oneโ€™s life for oneโ€™s friends.

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I Know My Sheep

โ€œI Know My Sheepโ€
John 10:14
Fourth Sunday of Easter (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

John 10:11

I am the Good Shepherd.
I know mine and mine know me.

Traditional Chinese Translation

ใ€Šๆˆ‘่ช่ญ˜ๆˆ‘็š„็พŠใ€‹
ๆˆ‘ๆ˜ฏๅฅฝ็‰งไบบใ€‚
ๆˆ‘่ช่ญ˜ๆˆ‘็š„็พŠ๏ผŒๆˆ‘็š„็พŠไนŸ่ช่ญ˜ๆˆ‘ใ€‚

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A Blazing Babe

โ€œA Blazing Babeโ€
A reflection on Deuteronomy 18:15-20
Sunday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ2024 Gloria M. Chang

Moses spoke to all the people, saying: “A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you from among your own kin; to him you shall listen.

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Jesus and Zacchaeus

โ€œJesus and Zacchaeusโ€
Luke 19:1-4 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
ยฉ๏ธ2022 by Gloria M. Chang

At that time, Jesus came to Jericho and intended to pass through the town. Now a man there named Zacchaeus, who was a chief tax collector and also a wealthy man, was seeking to see who Jesus was; but he could not see him because of the crowd, for he was short in stature. So

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The Father’s Hand

Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter

John 10:22-30

The feast of the Dedication was then taking place in Jerusalem. It was winter. And Jesus walked about in the temple area on the Portico of Solomon. So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, โ€œHow long are you going to keep us in suspense?

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God’s Beloved Sheep

Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter

John 10:22-30

Jesus assures us in todayโ€™s Gospel reading that no one can take his sheep out of his hand. He knows each of his sheep by name and their unique identities. 

โ€œMy Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can take them out of the Fatherโ€™s hand.โ€

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