Isaiah 61, Day 6

Photo of snail and tulips speaking Isaiah 61:11a about God's garden.
โ€œIsaiah 61, Day 6โ€
Isaiah 61:11a
ยฉ๏ธ2020 Gloria M. Chang

God’s promise blooms eternally: restoring the Garden of Eden, where justice and praise spring forth in fragrant abundance.

As the earth brings forth its shoots,
and a garden makes its seeds spring up,

So will the Lord God make justice spring up,
and praise before all the nations.

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Sleepless Sentinels

Photo of snail and weeping Japanese pagoda with text overlay of the Shalom Snail couplet, "Sleepless Sentinels."
โ€œSleepless Sentinelsโ€
Luke 12:35-38 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Tuesday of the Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Are you ready to stand as sleepless sentinels, vigilant for the Master’s return?

โ€œGird your loins and light your lampsand be like servants who await their masterโ€™s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.

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The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Photo of snail and dahlia speaking the Shalom Snail couplet.
โ€œThe Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Maryโ€
A reflection on Song of Songs 6:10
Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Midmorning Prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Bannered Troops

Who is this that comes forth like the dawn,
as beautiful as the moon, as resplendent as the sun,
as awe-inspiring as bannered troops?

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Anointed Feet

โ€œAnointed Feetโ€
A reflection on Matthew 9:16-17 and Isaiah 52:7
Saturday of the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang

โ€œNo one patches an old cloak with a piece of unshrunken cloth, for its fullness pulls away from the cloak and the tear gets worse.

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Peonies, Day 18

โ€œThe Eternal Tao (Panels 1 and 2)โ€
ยฉ๏ธ2020 by Gloria M. Chang

โ€œThe Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named is not the eternal nameโ€

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, chapter 1, translated by Derek Lin

Tao is the word used to translate Logos of St.… Read the rest