Beyond Consanguinity

“Beyond Consanguinity”
A reflection on Luke 14:25-33
Wednesday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang
Couplet revised in 2023

Great crowds were traveling with him, and he turned and addressed them, “If any one comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

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Mystery of Mysteries

“Ultimate Reality 3.0”
A reflection on Matthew 11:27
Sunday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time (Year A)
©️2023 by Gloria M. Chang

All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.

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Honey From the Rock

“Honey From the Rock”
Solemnity of Corpus Christi
Office of Readings, Antiphon 3
Adapted from Psalm 81:16 (17)
©️2021 by Gloria M. Chang

But Israel I will feed with the finest wheat,
I will satisfy them with honey from the rock.”

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Medicine of Immortality

“Medicine of Immortality”
John 6:57
Friday of the Third Week of Easter
©️2021 by Gloria M. Chang


Come together in common one and all without exception in charity, in one faith and in one Jesus Christ, who is of the race of David according to the flesh, the Son of man and Son of God … and break one bread, which is the medicine of immortality and the antidote against death, enabling us to live forever in Jesus Christ.

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My Father’s Will

“My Father’s Will”
John 6:38
Wednesday of the Third Week of Easter
©️2021 by Gloria M. Chang

For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him on the last day.”

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Fear Not!

“Fear Not!”
A reflection on John 6:16-21
Saturday of the Second Week of Easter
©️2021 by Gloria M. Chang

When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, got into a boat, and started across the sea to Caper′na-um. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. The

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Taste and See

“Taste and See”
Psalm 34:8 (9) from the Responsorial Psalm
Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter
©️2021 by Gloria M. Chang

I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.

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Lent, Day 11

“Lent, Day 11”
Gospel Acclamation from John 6:63c, 68c
Monday of the Second Week of Lent
©️2021 by Gloria M. Chang

For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus
from the law of sin and death.

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Temptation of Christ

“Temptation of Christ”
A reflection on Matthew 4:1-11
First Sunday of Lent (Year A)
©️2023 by Gloria M. Chang

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was hungry.

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