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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Perfect Gift From Above

โ€œPerfect Gift From Aboveโ€
Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ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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A Prophet Like Moses

โ€œA Prophet Like Mosesโ€
A reflection on John 6:1-15
Sunday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

After this, Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee. A large crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick.

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A Blazing Babe

โ€œA Blazing Babeโ€
A reflection on Deuteronomy 18:15-20
Sunday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ2024 Gloria M. Chang

Moses spoke to all the people, saying: “A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you from among your own kin; to him you shall listen.

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A Mystery Hushed

โ€œA Mystery Hushedโ€
A reflection on Mark 9:2-13
Saturday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ2022 by Gloria M. Chang

After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them. Then

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Lamps in the Light

Fourth Week of Lent, Thursday

Exodus 32:7-14; John 5:31-47 

He was a burning and shining lamp, and for a while you were content to rejoice in his light. But I have testimony greater than Johnโ€™s. The works that the Father gave me to accomplish, these works that I perform testify on my behalf that the Father has sent meโ€ฆ For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me.

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Jubilee, Day 8

โ€œJubilee, Day 8โ€
ยฉ๏ธ2021 by Gloria M. Chang

You shall count seven weeks of yearsโ€”seven times seven yearsโ€”such that the seven weeks of years amount to forty-nine years.ย Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month let the ramโ€™s horn resound; on this, the Day of Atonement, the ramโ€™s horn blast shall resound throughout your land.ย 

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The Father’s Face

Russian icon, The Mystical Supper (early 14th century). Fresco in Vatopedi Monastery, Mt. Athos.

Saturday of the Fourth Week of Easter

John 14:7-14

If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him.

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Word and Eternal Life

Andrei Rublev, Icon of the Most Holy Trinity

Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter

John 12:44-50

Jesus cried out and said, โ€œWhoever believes in me believes not only in me but also in the one who sent me, and whoever sees me sees the one who sent me.

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