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


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Perfect Gift From Above

โ€œPerfect Gift From Aboveโ€
Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

Readings (Year B):

Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8
Psalm 15:2-3, 3-4, 4-5
James 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27
Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

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A Prophet Like Moses

โ€œA Prophet Like Mosesโ€
A reflection on John 6:1-15
Sunday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

After this, Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee. A large crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick.

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Christ Makes Us Whole

โ€œChrist Makes Us Wholeโ€
A reflection on Matthew 9:1-8
Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

He entered a boat, made the crossing, and came into his own town. And there people brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher.

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Life from a Grain

โ€œLife from a Grainโ€
A reflection on John 12:20-33
Fifth Sunday of Lent (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

Some Greeks who had come to worship at the Passover Feast came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, โ€œSir, we would like to see Jesus.โ€

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Jar of Light

โ€œJar of Lightโ€
A reflection on Mark 9:2-10
Second Sunday of Lent (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them.

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Premature Publicity

โ€œPremature Publicityโ€
A reflection on Mark 1:40-45
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ2024 Gloria M. Chang

A leper came to Jesus and kneeling down begged him and said, โ€œIf you wish, you can make me clean.โ€ Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, โ€œI do will it.

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More Than a Medicine Man

โ€œMore Than a Medicine Manโ€
A reflection on Mark 1:29-39
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ2024 Gloria M. Chang

On leaving the synagogue Jesus entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John. Simon’s mother-in-law lay sick with a fever.

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