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As in the Days of Noah

“As in the Days of Noah”
A reflection on Luke 17:26-37
Friday of the Thirty-Second Week in Ordinary Time
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang

As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man; they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

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Serving From a Full Heart

“Serving From a Full Heart”
A reflection on Luke 17:7-10
Tuesday of the Thirty-Second Week in Ordinary Time
©️2022 Gloria M. Chang

“Who among you would say to your servant who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field, ‘Come here immediately and take your place at table’? Would

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Woe to the Tempter

“Woe to the Tempter”
Luke 17:1 “in a snailshell”
Monday of the Thirty-Second Week in Ordinary Time
©️2022 Gloria M. Chang

Jesus said to his disciples, “Things that cause sin will inevitably occur, but woe to the person through whom they occur. It… Read the rest

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More Powerful Than Atoms

“More Powerful Than Atoms”
A reflection on Luke 17:5-6
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
©️2022 by Gloria M. Chang

And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” The Lord replied, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.”

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Now and at the Hour of our Death

Panel 1: Andreas Pavias, The Crucifixion, detail, 15th century (National Gallery of Athens) 
Panel 2: Andreas Pavias, The Crucifixion 
Panel 3: Andreas Pavias, The Crucifixion, detail
Panel 4: Russian Icon of the Crucifixion, late 16th century (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)

32nd Week in Ordinary Time, Friday (Year II)

Luke 17:26-37

“Where the body is, there also the vultures will gather” (Luke 17:37).… Read the rest

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The Kingdom of God

Christ Pantocrator, Mosaic from the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey.

32nd Week in Ordinary Time, Thursday (Year II)

Luke 17:20-25

Asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus said in reply, “The coming of the Kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, ‘Look, here it is,’ or, ‘There it is.’… Read the rest