Our Lady of Guadalupe

Our Lady of Guadalupe, Shalom Snail
โ€œOur Lady of Guadalupeโ€
ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang

In December’s dawn, Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego, painting heaven’s love on his tilma forever.

Nican Mopohua (โ€œHere It is Toldโ€)

From a report by Don Antonio Valeriano, a Native American author of the sixteenth century (Liturgy of the Hours translation)

At daybreak one Saturday morning in 1531, on the very first days of the month of December, an Indian named Juan Diego was going from the village where he lived to Tlatelolco in order to take part in divine worship and listen to God’s commandments.… Read the rest

Moonwalk, Day 2

โ€œMoonwalk, Day 2โ€
ยฉ๏ธ2021 by Gloria M. Chang

A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.

Revelation 12:1

Our Lady of Guadalupe fits this description well.… Read the rest

A Divine Conductor? (Part 2)

Persons Are Wholes, Not Parts

The Three One has no โ€œinternal conductor,โ€ but can the Trinity be conceived as the โ€œconductorโ€ of human persons and the cosmos?ย 

What is the relationship between persons and the cosmos? From our material frames of reference, human persons are parts of the universe.… Read the rest

Letting Go

Our Lady of Guadalupe

13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A

Matthew 10:37-42

Jesus said to his apostles: โ€œWhoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.Read the rest