
A reflection on Matthew 19:3-12
Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang
… Read the restSome Pharisees approached him, and tested him, saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?”
Journey to Wholeness
… Read the restSome Pharisees approached him, and tested him, saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?”
… Read the restSome Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and put this question to him, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If someone’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.’
… Read the restOn the third day there was a wedding in Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.
Like a bridegroom adorned with a diadem,
Isaiah 61:10c
as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Biblical marriage between a bridegroom and his bride has royal, sacred, and cosmic significance. … Read the rest
… Read the rest“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
… Read the restOn the third day there was a wedding in Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus
… Read the restThe Pharisees approached and asked, “Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?” They were testing him.
4th Week in Ordinary Time, Friday (Year I)
Hebrews 13:1-8; Mark 6:14-29
… Read the restLet mutual love continue. Do not neglect hospitality, for through it some have unknowingly entertained angels. Be mindful of prisoners as if sharing their imprisonment, and of the ill-treated as of yourselves, for you also are in the body.
33rd Week in Ordinary Time, Saturday (Year II)
… Read the restJesus said to them, “The children of this age marry and remarry; but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
9th Week in Ordinary Time, Wednesday (Year II)
Mark 12:18-27
What is it like not to believe in a spiritual realm?… Read the rest