God Never Gives Up

God Never Gives Up, Shalom Snail, Advent
โ€œGod Never Gives Upโ€
Second Sunday of Advent (Year C)
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

Readings

Baruch 5:1-9
Psalm 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6
Philippians 1:4-6, 8-11
Luke 3:1-6

The Promised Land

Israelโ€™s exodus from Egyptian slavery into the Promised Land of โ€œmilk and honeyโ€ epitomizes humanityโ€™s exodus from sin into the Promised Land of transfigured holiness.… Read the rest

The Return of the King

Will the second coming of Christ look anything like its prophecy? No one knows. May we stay awake, watching and praying for the return of the King.

As drunken nations gape in dismay,
Vigilant sentinels stand and pray.

Reflection for the First Sunday of Advent (Year C)
โ€œThe Return of the Kingโ€
First Sunday of Advent (Year C)
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

A Just King

Todayโ€™s prophecy and tomorrowโ€™s fulfillment may look like exact opposites. In the first reading, God speaks to Jeremiah amid national chaos and despair.… Read the rest

Jerusalem, Your Light Has Come

โ€œJerusalem, Your Light Has Comeโ€
Isaiah 60:1
From the Liturgy of the Hours, Epiphany, Morning Prayer, Antiphon 3
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Arise! Shine, for your light has come,
the glory of the Lord has dawned upon you.
Though darkness covers the earth,
and thick clouds, the peoples,
Upon you the Lord will dawn,
and over you his glory will be seen.

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Mount Zion, Gate of Paradise

Rembrandt, Moses Smashing the Tables of the Law, 1659

4th Week in Ordinary Time, Thursday (Year I)

Hebrews 12:18-24; Mark 6:7-13

You have not approached that which could be touched and a blazing fire and gloomy darkness and storm and a trumpet blast and a voice speaking words such that those who heard begged that no message be further addressed to them, for they could not bear to hear the command: โ€œIf even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.โ€

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