Kinship With Christ

Photo of snail and rose speaking the couplet about kinship with Christ.
โ€œKinship With Christโ€
Tuesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
A reflection on Mark 3:31-35
ยฉ2023 Gloria M. Chang

Kinship with Christ transcends blood: whoever does God’s will becomes his mother, brother, sister.ย 

The mother of Jesus and his brothers arrived at the house.

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Heavenly Fisheries

Photo of two seagulls on an ocean bank speaking the couplet about heavenly fisheries.
โ€œHeavenly Fisheriesโ€
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
A reflection on Matthew 4:18-22
ยฉ2023 Gloria M. Chang

Four fishermen left their nets to join Christโ€™s heavenly fisheriesโ€”catching souls for eternity.

As he was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea; they were fishermen. He

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What Word Is This?

Photo of snail and blue mistflower speaking the Shalom Snail couplet.
โ€œWhat Word is This?โ€
Luke 4:31-37 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Tuesday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Jesus then went down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee. He taught them on the sabbath, and they were astonished at his teaching because he spoke with authority.

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Sealed by God

Christ Pantocrator, 13th century Serbian icon

Monday of the Third Week of Easter

John 6:22-29

The next day, the crowd that remained across the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not gone along with his disciples in the boat, but only his disciples had left.

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Living Tabernacles

Russian icon of the Crucifixion by Dionysius, ca. 1500, Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow

Why did the Son of God die on the Cross?

Many theories of atonement have been proposed since the early Church, but none of them are definitive. The Catechism of the Catholic Church simply states that the crucifixion is โ€œpart of the mystery of God’s planโ€ (599). … Read the rest

From Melchizedek to Adam

Replica of the Temple menorah, made by the Temple Institute, Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem.

The Lord has sworn and will not waver:
โ€œYou are a priest forever in the manner of Melchizedek.โ€

Psalm 110:4

The dreamlike quality of the mysterious Melchizedek defies logical analysis and reasoning.… Read the rest