Your Grief Will Become Joy

Photo of baby snail on a rose with text of the Shalom Snail couplet, "Your Grief Will Become Joy."
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

Sorrow is not the end; through Christ, anguish gives way to unshakable joy that no one can take away.

Gospel

John 16:20-22

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

Get Behind Me, Satan!

A photo of a snail on a hibiscus reflecting on the couplet, "Get behind me, Satan!"
โ€œGet behind me, Satan!โ€
Matthew 16:21-23 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Thursday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, โ€œWho do people say that the Son of Man is?โ€

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Momentary Affliction

โ€œMomentary Afflictionsโ€
A reflection on 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1
Sunday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2024 Gloria M. Chang

Brothers and sisters: Since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, I believed, therefore I spoke, we too believe and therefore we speak, knowing that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and place us with you in his presence.

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What is Faith?

Icon of the Crucifixion

Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent

Luke 7:18b-23 (Matthew 11:2-6)

At that time, John summoned two of his disciples and sent them to the Lord to ask, โ€œAre you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?โ€ When

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Job in the Gulags

Icon of Old Testament Patriarch Job, Northern Russia, late 17th century. 

26th Week in Ordinary Time, Friday (Year II)

Job 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5

WHY? 

This infuriating question had Job and his friends entangled like a Gordian knot. Word after word and argument after argument submerged them deeper and deeper into the quicksand of โ€œWhy?โ€… Read the rest