To Save Life or to Destroy It?

Photo of snail on purple coneflower with text overlay of reflection on Luke 6:6-11: "When heart and mind are out of whack, / 
Doubts plague whether to heal or wrack."
โ€œTo Save Life or to Destroy It?โ€
Luke 6:6-11 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Monday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Gospel

Luke 6:6-11

On another sabbath he went into the synagogue and taught, and there was a man there whose right hand was withered.… Read the rest

Mercy is Universal

Photo of a snail and cosmos speaking the Shalom Snail couplet, "Mercy is Universal."
โ€œMercy is Universalโ€
A reflection on Luke 10:25-37
Monday of the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ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, โ€œTeacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?โ€

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Citizens of a New World

Simone Martini (c. 1284-1344), St. Simon and St. Jude, National Gallery of Art

Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles

Ephesians 2:19-22; Luke 6:12-16

Brothers and sisters: You are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone.

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Children of the Father

Mosaic of the Sermon on the Mount (Ravenna, Italy)

23rd Week in Ordinary Time, Thursday (Year II)

Luke 6:27-38

Jesus said to his disciples: โ€œTo you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat youโ€ฆ Be merciful, just as also your Father is merciful.โ€Read the rest