Love of God and Neighbor

โ€œLove of God and Neighborโ€
Matthew 22:34-40 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Friday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested him by asking,โ€œTeacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?โ€

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You Were Once Aliens

โ€œYou Were Once Aliensโ€
A reflection on Exodus 22:21(20) and Matthew 22:34-40
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
ยฉ๏ธ2023 Gloria M. Chang

Thus says the LORD: “You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.โ€

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Whose Inscription?

โ€œWhose Inscription?โ€
A reflection on Matthew 22:15-21, Luke 3:38, Acts 17:29
Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
ยฉ๏ธ2023 Gloria M. Chang

The Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap Jesus in speech. They sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.

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The King’s Invitation

โ€œThe Kingโ€™s Invitationโ€
A reflection on Matthew 22:1-14
Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
ยฉ๏ธ2023 Gloria M. Chang

Jesus again in reply spoke to the chief priests and elders of the people in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son.

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