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A Tasty Dish

A photo of a snail among vinca reflecting on the couplet, "A Tasty Dish."
“A Tasty Dish”
A reflection on Matthew 14:13-21
Monday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
©️2023 Gloria M. Chang

When Jesus heard of the death of John the Baptist, he withdrew in a boat to a deserted place by himself.

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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.
“The Parable of the Rich Fool”
A reflection on Luke 12:13-21
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
©️2022 Gloria M. Chang

Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.” He replied to him, “Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?”

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The Priceless Pearl

Photo of wild flowers and rocks in a field with the Shalom Snail couplet beneath.
“The Priceless Pearl”
A reflection on Matthew 13:44-46
Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
©️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, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but your disciples do not fast?”

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