Let the Children Come to Me

Photo of snail amid verbena speaking the Shalom Snail couplet.
โ€œLet the Children Come to Meโ€
Matthew 19:13-15 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Saturday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked them, but Jesus said, โ€œLet the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.โ€

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A Fishy Fee

Photo of a fisherman standing in a boat at sea with the Shalom Snail couplet printed.
โ€œA Fishy Feeโ€
A reflection on Matthew 17:24-27
Monday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Photo by Doni Haris (Pexels)
Poem ยฉ๏ธ2025 Gloria M. Chang

When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax approached Peter and said, โ€œDoesnโ€™t your teacher pay the temple tax?โ€

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Doesn’t Your Teacher Pay the Temple Tax?

Photo of snails overlooking a waterfall and speaking the Shalom Snail couplet.
โ€œDoesnโ€™t Your Teacher Pay the Temple Tax?โ€
Matthew 17:24-27 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Monday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax approached Peter and said, โ€œDoesnโ€™t your teacher pay the temple tax?โ€

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Get Behind Me, Satan!

A photo of a snail on a hibiscus reflecting on the couplet, "Get behind me, Satan!"
โ€œGet behind me, Satan!โ€
Matthew 16:21-23 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Thursday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, โ€œWho do people say that the Son of Man is?โ€

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The Parable of the Rich Fool

Photo of a snail and a black-eyed susan reflecting on the Parable of the Rich Fool.
โ€œThe Parable of the Rich Foolโ€
A reflection on Luke 12:13-21
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang

Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, โ€œTeacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.โ€ He replied to him, โ€œFriend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?โ€

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The Priceless Pearl

Photo of wild flowers and rocks in a field with the Shalom Snail couplet beneath.
โ€œThe Priceless Pearlโ€
A reflection on Matthew 13:44-46
Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2025 Gloria M. Chang

“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

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New Wine into Fresh Wineskins

13th Week in Ordinary Time, Saturday (Year II)

Amos 9:11-15; Matthew 9:14-17

The disciples of John approached Jesus and said, โ€œWhy do we and the Pharisees fast much, but your disciples do not fast?โ€

Jesus and the Twelve must have appeared to the mourning disciples of the beheaded John the Baptist as a spiritually undisciplined band.… Read the rest