
A reflection on Luke 7:11-17
Tuesday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
©️2022 Gloria M. Chang
… Read the restJesus journeyed to a city called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd accompanied him.
Journey to Wholeness
… Read the restJesus journeyed to a city called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd accompanied him.
… Read the restHerod was the one who had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, whom he had married. John
… Read the restAnd many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat at home.
“And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
John 12:32 (ESV)
Christ was handed over,
to gather into one the scattered children of God.
In the desert of Lent, we fast from food but feast on the Word of God. The ancient practice of lectio divina, or sacred reading, invites us to chew on the words of Scripture and savor them.
John’s Gospel for the Fifth Sunday of Lent exalts Jesus, who has power over life and death.… Read the rest
For I know that my Redeemer lives,
and at last he will stand upon the earth;
and after my skin has been thus destroyed,
then from my flesh I shall see God.
… Read the restSome Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to him, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.’ Now