Standing With Christ

Standing With Christ, Shalom Snail
โ€œStanding With Christโ€
A reflection on Mark 8:38
Friday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ2022 Gloria M. Chang

โ€œWhoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this faithless and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of when he comes in his Fatherโ€™s glory with the holy angels.โ€

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My Face Like Flint

โ€œMy Face Like Flintโ€
A reflection on Isaiah 50:6-7
Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

Readings (Year B):

Isaiah 50:5-9a
Psalm 116:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9
James 2:14-18
Mark 8:27-35

A Lamb Led to Slaughter


What does a messianic liberator look like?… Read the rest

Our Forsaken Lord

โ€œOur Forsaken Lordโ€
Palm Sunday of the Lordโ€™s Passion (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking testimony against Jesus to put him to death, but they found none. For many bore false witness against him, but their testimony did not agree. And

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Life from a Grain

โ€œLife from a Grainโ€
A reflection on John 12:20-33
Fifth Sunday of Lent (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

Some Greeks who had come to worship at the Passover Feast came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, โ€œSir, we would like to see Jesus.โ€

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Jar of Light

โ€œJar of Lightโ€
A reflection on Mark 9:2-10
Second Sunday of Lent (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

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.

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Soaring on Eagles’ Wings

Russian icon of the Crucifixion by Dionysius, ca. 1500, Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow

Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent

Isaiah 40:25-31; Matthew 11:28-30

In a world of constant change and becoming, faith in an immutably good, true, beautiful, and eternal God of Love is an anchor in the midst of crashing waves.… Read the rest