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A Harvest of Samaritans

Photo of snail and tulips speaking the couplet about a harvest of Samaritans from John 4:5-42.
“A Harvest of Samaritans”
A reflection on John 4:5-42
Third Sunday of Lent (Year A)
©️2023 Gloria M. Chang

Discover the surprising Harvest of Samaritans at Jacob’s well—fields white, souls ripe for eternal life.

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John 4:5-42

Jesus came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s… Read the rest

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Mercy is Universal

Photo of a snail and cosmos speaking the Shalom Snail couplet, "Mercy is Universal."
“Mercy is Universal”
A reflection on Luke 10:25-37
Monday of the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
©️2022 Gloria M. Chang

Mercy is universal, transcending all boundaries as shown by the Samaritan’s compassionate aid to a stranger in Jesus’ parable.

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test him and said, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

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Lent, Day 24

Lent Day 24, Shalom Snail
“Lent, Day 24”
Isaiah 55:1 from which the Entrance Antiphon is adapted
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang

“But 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.”

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