I Have Called You By Name

Photo of a snail on a rose speaking the poetic couplet.
โ€œI Have Called You By Nameโ€
Isaiah 43:1 and Luke 10:20
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang

The seventy[-two] returned rejoicing, and said, โ€œLord, even the demons are subject to us because of your name.โ€ Jesus said, โ€œI have observed Satan fall like lightning from the sky. Behold,

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The New Jerusalem

A snail and a tulip reflect on Revelation 21:23: "No sun or moon will shine in the new Yerushalaim / For the Lamb will be our lamp beyond transient time."
โ€œThe New Jerusalemโ€
A reflection on Revelation 21:23
Sixth Sunday of Easter (Year C)
ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang

Yerushalaim is the transliteration of Jerusalem. Click phonetics for the pronunciation of Yerushalaim.


He took me in spirit to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God. It

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The Great Light

โ€œThe Great Lightโ€ (2 panels)
Isaiah 9:1(2)
Meditation on Light, Series I, Day 1
ยฉ๏ธ2020 by Gloria M. Chang

There is no gloom where there had been distress. Where once he degraded the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, now he has glorified the way of the Sea, the land across the Jordan, Galilee of the Nations.… Read the rest

Plowing to Paradise

โ€œPlowing to Paradiseโ€
A reflection on 1 Kings 19:19-21, Luke 9:59-62, Revelation 21:21
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
Note: โ€œFare thee wellโ€ is the archaic form of โ€œgoodbyeโ€ or โ€œfarewell.โ€
ยฉ๏ธ2022 by Gloria M. Chang

Elijah set out, and came upon Elisha, son of Shaphat, as he was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen; he was following the twelfth.

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