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The Cost of Discipleship

Photo of snail and rose speaking the Shalom Snail couplet.
“The Cost of Discipleship”
A reflection on Luke 14:25-33; 13:24
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
©️2022 by Gloria M. Chang

Great crowds were traveling with Jesus, 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. Whoever

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Paradox of Peace

A snail and begonias speaking the Shalom Snail couplet.
“Paradox of Peace”
A reflection on Luke 12:49-53
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
©️2022 Gloria M. Chang

“I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished! Do

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Friend, Go Up Higher

“Friend, Go Up Higher”
Luke 14:7-11 “in a snailshell”
Saturday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang

On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. 

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