Holy Preachers

Photo of snail and pansies speaking the Shalom Snail couplet about holy preachers from Mark 3:11-19.
โ€œHoly Preachersโ€
A reflection on Mark 3:11-19
Friday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang

Holy preachers, filled with the Holy Spirit, alone can truly proclaim โ€œJesus Christ is Lord.โ€

And whenever unclean spirits saw Jesus they would fall down before him and shout, โ€œYou are the Son of God.โ€ He

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Saint James, Apostle

Photo of snail and roses speaking the Shalom Snail couplet.
โ€œSaint James, Apostleโ€
A reflection on Mark 10:35-45 and Acts 12:1-3
Feast of Saint James, Apostle
ยฉ๏ธ2023 Gloria M. Chang

And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him and said to him, โ€œTeacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.โ€ And

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Saint Andrew, Apostle

โ€œThe Call of the First Disciplesโ€
Feast of Saint Andrew, Apostle
Matthew 4:18-22 “in a snailshellโ€
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

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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If Every Flower Wanted to Be a Rose…

โ€œIf Every Flower Wanted to Be a Roseโ€ฆโ€
The wisdom of St. Therese of Lisieux โ€œin a snailshellโ€
A reflection on Mark 10:35-45
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said to him, โ€œTeacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.โ€

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The Kingdom Beyond Four Dimensions

Feast of St. James

Matthew 20:20-28

What does the kingdom of heaven look like? Jesus never described it in precise scientific or geographical terms suited to the spatiotemporal domain, but always with suggestive images. Like the attempts of the Sphere to describe the third dimension to a two-dimensional Square in Edwin Abbottโ€™s novel, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, unimaginable depths are lost in translation when communicating divine realities in 4-D linguistics.… Read the rest