Lent, Day 24

Lent Day 24, Shalom Snail
โ€œLent, Day 24โ€
Isaiah 55:1 from which the Entrance Antiphon is adapted
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

โ€œBut whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.โ€

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Isaiah 35, Day 2

โ€œIsaiah 35, Day 2โ€
Isaiah 35:2a
ยฉ๏ธ2020 Gloria M. Chang

Like the crocus it shall bloom abundantly,
and rejoice with joyful song.

Isaiah 35:2a

Singing Blooms

The Hebrew word translated variously as โ€œcrocus,โ€ โ€œmeadow saffron,โ€ โ€œrose,โ€ โ€œnarcissus,โ€ โ€œlily,โ€ or โ€œflowerโ€ (chabatstseleth) is of uncertain derivation.… Read the rest

My Face Like Flint

โ€œMy Face Like Flintโ€
A reflection on Isaiah 50:6-7
Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

Readings (Year B):

Isaiah 50:5-9a
Psalm 116:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9
James 2:14-18
Mark 8:27-35

A Lamb Led to Slaughter


What does a messianic liberator look like?… Read the rest

Happy Harvest

โ€œHappy Harvestโ€
ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang

The one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

2 Corinthians 9:10

A Harvest of Thanks

The abundant life of grace mirrors the magnanimous fecundity of our Creator.… Read the rest

The Tangled Human Mind

โ€œThe Tangled Human Mindโ€
A reflection on Isaiah 55:8-9
Sunday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time (Year A)
ยฉ๏ธ2023 Gloria M. Chang

For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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Trinitarian Cosmos

Slavic icon of creation

15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)

Isaiah 55:10-11; Romans 8:18-23; Mattthew 13:1-23

Thus says the LORD: Just as from the heavens the rain and snow come down and do not return there till they have watered the earth, making it fertile and fruitful, giving seed to the one who sows and bread to the one who eats, so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; my word shall not return to me void, but shall do my will, achieving the end for which I sent it.Read the rest