Lent, Day 15

Lent Day 15, Shalom Snail
โ€œLent, Day 15โ€
Liturgy of the Hours, Office of Readings, Second Responsory
Friday of the Second Week of Lent
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Moses went up the mountain. Then the cloud covered the mountain. The glory of the Lord settled upon Mount Sinai. The cloud covered it for six days, and on the seventh day he called to Moses from the midst of the cloud. To

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Christ Makes Us Whole

โ€œChrist Makes Us Wholeโ€
A reflection on Matthew 9:1-8
Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

He entered a boat, made the crossing, and came into his own town. And there people brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher.

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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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Transfigured in Light

โ€œTransfigured in Lightโ€
A reflection on Matthew 17:1-9 and Exodus 34:29
Solemnity of the Transfiguration of the Lord (Year A)
ยฉ๏ธ2023 Gloria M. Chang

After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.

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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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Mount Zion, Gate of Paradise

Rembrandt, Moses Smashing the Tables of the Law, 1659

4th Week in Ordinary Time, Thursday (Year I)

Hebrews 12:18-24; Mark 6:7-13

You have not approached that which could be touched and a blazing fire and gloomy darkness and storm and a trumpet blast and a voice speaking words such that those who heard begged that no message be further addressed to them, for they could not bear to hear the command: โ€œIf even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.โ€

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