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Perfect Gift From Above

“Perfect Gift From Above”
Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
©️2024 Gloria M. Chang

Readings (Year B):

Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8
Psalm 15:2-3, 3-4, 4-5
James 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27
Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Ten Commandments, Oren neu dag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Food for Thought

“Food for Thought”
Mark 7:1-8, 14-23 “in a snailshell”
Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang

Now when the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.

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The Dogged Faith of a Canaanite

“The Dogged Faith of a Canaanite”
Matthew 15:21-28 “in a snailshell”
Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang

Then Jesus went from that place and withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanite woman of that district came and called out, “Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David!

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God Made All Things Good

Peter’s vision of a sheet with animals, from Acts 10; illustration from Henry Davenport Northrop, “Treasures of the Bible,” published 1894.

5th Week in Ordinary Time, Tuesday (Year I)

Genesis 1:20—2:4a; Mark 7:1-13

Then God said: Let the earth bring forth every kind of living creature: tame animals, crawling things, and every kind of wild animal.

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