Secrets of the Kingdom

โ€œSecrets of the Kingdomโ€
A reflection on Matthew 13:10-17
(cf. Luke 8:10; Mark 4:11-12)
Thursday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang

The disciples approached him and said, โ€œWhy do you speak to them in parables?โ€ He said to them in reply, โ€œBecause knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been granted to you, but to them it has not been granted. To

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Christ the King of the Cosmos

โ€œChrist the King of the Cosmosโ€
A reflection on Matthew 8:23-27
Tuesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang

As Jesus got into a boat, his disciples followed him. Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by waves; but he was asleep. They

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Seeds of the Kingdom

โ€œSeeds of the Kingdomโ€ (3 panels)
A reflection on Mark 4:26-29 
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

He said, โ€œThis is how it is with the kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and day and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how.

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Seeds of the Logos

Vincent van Gogh, Sower, 1888

Friday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time (Year I)

Hebrews 10:32-39; Mark 4:26-34

The Word through whom the world came to be knew his creation intimately (John 1:3). Earth, air, soil, and water that composed his own body were fashioned in the beginning by the Spirit of God hovering over the face of the waters (Genesis 1:2).… Read the rest