Isaiah 61, Day 5

Photo of snail and spider flower with text overlay of Isaiah 61:10c about the bridegroom and bride.
โ€œIsaiah 61, Day 5โ€
Isaiah 61:10c
ยฉ๏ธ2020 Gloria M. Chang

The eternal Bridegroom and Bride form heavenโ€™s royal temple, sealed in divine splendor.

Like a bridegroom adorned with a diadem,
as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Isaiah 61:10c

Heavenly Marriage

Biblical marriage between a bridegroom and his bride has royal, sacred, and cosmic significance. … Read the rest

No Marriage in Heaven?

Photo of three roses facing the sun with text overlay of the Shalom Snail couplet, "No Marriage in Heaven?"
โ€œNo Marriage in Heaven?โ€
A reflection on Luke 20:27-36
Saturday of the Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to him, saying, โ€œTeacher, Moses wrote for us, โ€˜If someoneโ€™s brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.โ€™

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Paradox of Peace

A snail and begonias speaking the Shalom Snail couplet.
โ€œParadox of Peaceโ€
A reflection on Luke 12:49-53
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang

โ€œI 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

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The Wedding at Cana

Wedding Feast at Cana, Shalom Snail, mystic wine
โ€œThe Wedding at Canaโ€ John 2:1-11 โ€œin a snailshellโ€ Sunday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time (Year C) ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang

On the third day there was a wedding in Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus

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God’s Designs

โ€œGodโ€™s Designsโ€
A reflection on Mark 10:2-12; Genesis 1:27-28a, 2:18-24
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Law of Moses on Divorce

The Pharisees approached and asked, โ€œIs it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?โ€

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Resurrected Saints Shall Fly

โ€œResurrected Saints Shall Flyโ€
Mark 12:18-27 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Wednesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and put this question to him, saying, โ€œTeacher, Moses wrote for us, โ€˜If someoneโ€™s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.โ€™

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Wine for the Wedding Feast

โ€œWine for the Wedding Feastโ€
A reflection on John 2:1-11
ยฉ๏ธ2023 by Gloria M. Chang

On the third day there was a weddingย in Canaย in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.ย Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.ย 

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Resurrection and Virginity

Icon of the Mother of God โ€œof the Signโ€

33rd Week in Ordinary Time, Saturday (Year II) 

Jesus said to them, โ€œThe 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.

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