
Luke 6:39-40 โin a snailshellโ
Friday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang
Gospel
Luke 6:39-40
And he told them a parable, โCan a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit?… Read the rest

Journey to Wholeness

And he told them a parable, โCan a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit?… Read the rest

On another sabbath he went into the synagogue and taught, and there was a man there whose right hand was withered.… Read the rest

The beloved Son was crushed like grapes to become the wine that saves us.
He began to speak to them in parables.ย … Read the rest

They returned once more to Jerusalem. As he was walking in the temple area, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders approached him and said to him, โBy what authority are you doing these things?… Read the rest

Through bold faith, friends lower a paralytic to Jesus, revealing His divine authority in the healing of a paralyticโbody and soul.… Read the rest

With humble “pennies for paradise,” a widow’s faith ignites the eternal treasury of heaven’s boundless grace.
… Read the restWhen Jesus looked up he saw some wealthy people putting their offerings into the treasury and he noticed a poor widow putting in two small coins.

What does the Parable of the Lost Sheep reveal about the boundless love and mercy of Jesus for every single person?… Read the rest

Whatโs the recipe for heavenly herbal tea?
… Read the restโWoe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint and of rue and of every garden herb, but you pay no attention to judgment and to love for God.

Purity of heart involves cleansing the inner self through heartfelt almsgiving, not just performing superficial rituals.
… Read the rest
While Jesus was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him, so he went in and reclined at table.

… Read the restโWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You lock the kingdom of heaven before human beings. You do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow entrance to those trying to enter.