God is Love, Day 1

God is Love, Shalom Snail, 1 John 4
โ€œGod is Love, Day 1โ€
1 John 4:7a
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang


“Nothing is so great as love; for love is the bond of perfection.”

St. John Chrysostom

Beloved, let us love one another, 
because love is of God.

Traditional Chinese Translation

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ๅ› ็‚บๆ„›ๆ˜ฏๅ‡บๆ–ผ็ฅž็š„ใ€‚

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Divine Bread, Broken for All

A snail on a red tulip reflects on Corpus Christi with this poem: God invisible, Wholly indivisible, Becomes, in Christ, edible, Partible, digestible, Forming the Church visible!
โ€œDivine Bread, Broken for Allโ€
A reflection on 1 Corinthians 10:17
Solemnity of Corpus Christi
ยฉ๏ธ2025 Gloria M. Chang

Because the loaf of bread is one, we, though many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.

1 Corinthians 10:17
Coptic icon of Christ feeding the multitude


For what is the bread?

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Your Grief Will Become Joy

A baby snail on a rose reflects on John 16:20-22: "When a child is begotten, / Past travails are forgotten."
โ€œYour Grief Will Become Joyโ€
A reflection on John 16:20-22
Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter
ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang

Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy. When

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You Are My Friends

A snail and bright orange tulips speak John 15:12-14: "You are my friends if you love one another as I love you."
โ€œYou Are My Friendsโ€
Adapted from John 15:12-14
Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

โ€œDo you see that the love of God is intertwined with our own and connected like a sort of chain? Thus, it sometimes says that there are two commandments, sometimes only one.

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John Saw and Believed

โ€œJohn Saw and Believedโ€
John 20:1-8 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Feast of Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb.

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Rejoice!

31st Week in Ordinary Time, Thursday

Luke 15:1-10

โ€œRejoice with me because I have found my lost sheepโ€ (Luke 15:6).

โ€œRejoice with me because I have found the coin that I lostโ€ (Luke 15:9).

โ€œBut now we must celebrate and rejoice, because your brother was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been foundโ€ (Luke 15:32).… Read the rest