Tag: Mission of the Seventy[-Two]

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Treading on Serpents

Photo of snail and cardoon with text overlay of the Shalom Snail couplet, "Treading on Serpents."
“Treading on Serpents”
A reflection on Luke 10:17-20; Genesis 3:15; Romans 8:16-17
Saturday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
©️2022 Gloria M. Chang

Christ empowers his followers with divine authority, treading on serpents and overcoming evil, as heirs with him in the victory of the Cross.… Read the rest

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Lambs Among Wolves

Photo of snail and snowmound spirea shrub with text overlay of the reflection on Luke 10:1-12: "Two by two went forth seventy Jews / Like lambs among wolves, / With shalom and good news."
“Lambs Among Wolves”
Luke 10:1-12 “in a snailshell”
Thursday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang

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Luke 10:1-12

After this the Lord appointed seventy[-two] others whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit.… Read the rest