God’s Treasure

โ€œGodโ€™s Treasureโ€
Responsorial Psalm 100:3 (2 panels)
Saturday of the Fifth Week of Easter
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

โ€œFor you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.โ€

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No One Can Take My Sheep

A snail and orange-red tulips speak John 10:29-30: "No one can take my sheep out of the Father's hand. The Father and I are one."
โ€œNo One Can Take My Sheepโ€
Adapted from John 10:29-30
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I will lay down my life for the sheep.

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I Am the Gate

A daffodil with a snail resting on it speaks John 10:7: "I AM the gate for the sheep."
โ€œI Am the Gateโ€
John 10:7
Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter
ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang

Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture.

John 10:9

I am the gate for the sheep.

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Beloved Shepherd

Photo of snail and daffodil behind a fence post with text overlay of the Shalom Snail couplet about the Beloved Shepherd.
โ€œBeloved Shepherdโ€
A reflection on John 10:1-10
Fourth Sunday of Easter (Year A)
ยฉ๏ธ2023 Gloria M. Chang

In the Shepherdโ€™s voice, lost sheep find their nameโ€”and abundant life.

Gospel

John 10:1-10

โ€œAmen, amen, I say to you, whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber. But… Read the rest

Lost Sheep Hospital

Photo of a snail among creeping phlox with text of the Shalom Snail couplet.
โ€œLost Sheep Hospitalโ€
A reflection on Matthew 10:1-7
Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Jesus summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness.

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Mangled Sheep

โ€œMangled Sheepโ€
A reflection on Matthew 9:36
Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Jesus went around to all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and curing every disease and illness.

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No Greater Love

โ€œNo Greater Loveโ€
John 15:13
Sixth Sunday of Easter (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

John 10:11

Greater love has no one than this: 
to lay down oneโ€™s life for oneโ€™s friends.

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Jesus and Zacchaeus

โ€œJesus and Zacchaeusโ€
Luke 19:1-4 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
ยฉ๏ธ2022 by Gloria M. Chang

At that time, Jesus came to Jericho and intended to pass through the town. Now a man there named Zacchaeus, who was a chief tax collector and also a wealthy man, was seeking to see who Jesus was; but he could not see him because of the crowd, for he was short in stature. So

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The Father’s Hand

Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter

John 10:22-30

The feast of the Dedication was then taking place in Jerusalem. It was winter. And Jesus walked about in the temple area on the Portico of Solomon. So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, โ€œHow long are you going to keep us in suspense?

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Shepherd of the Lost

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

Hebrews 13:15-17, 20-21; Psalm 23; Mark 6:30-34

The apostles gathered together with Jesus and reported all they had done and taught. He said to them, โ€œCome away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.โ€

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