The Golden Rule

Photo of snail and tulips speaking Matthew 7:12, "Do to others what you want them to do to you.
This is the Law and the Prophets.
Adieu!"
โ€œThe Golden Ruleโ€
Matthew 7:12 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Tuesday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Take no revenge and cherish no grudge against your own people.
You shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.

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The Lord’s Prayer

โ€œThe Lord’s Prayer” (5 panels)
Matthew 6:9-13
Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

The Our Father

The Lordโ€™s Prayer (commonly known as the โ€œOur Fatherโ€ or โ€œPater Nosterโ€) is the only prayer explicitly taught by Jesus in the New Testament, as recorded in the Gospels.… Read the rest

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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Our Father Makes Us One

A snail and a variety of tulips reflect on the Holy Trinity: "Our Father begets the Son, / Sends the Spirit and makes us one."
โ€œOur Father Makes Us Oneโ€
A reflection on Catechism of the Catholic Church 2789
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
ยฉ๏ธ2025 Gloria M. Chang

Our Father unites us as one in the eternal communion of the Trinity.

Catechism of the Catholic Church 2789

When we pray to “our” Father, we personally address the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.… Read the rest

Lose It All, Gain It All

Photo of snail and tulips with text overlay of the poem, "Lose It All, Gain It All."
โ€œLose It All, Gain It Allโ€
A reflection on Mark 10:28-31
Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Gospel

Mark 10:28-31

Peter began to say to him, โ€œWe have given up everything and followed you.โ€ Jesus said, โ€œAmen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age: houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and eternal life in the age to come.… Read the rest

From Rome to Arabia

Photo of snail and tulips speaking the Pentecost couplet, "From Rome to Arabia."
โ€œFrom Rome to Arabiaโ€
Acts 2:5-11 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Pentecost Sunday
ยฉ๏ธ2023 Gloria M. Chang

Gospel

Acts 2:1-11

When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were.… Read the rest

Uncountable Marvels

โ€œUncountable Marvelsโ€ (2 panels)
A reflection on John 21:25
Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

It is this disciple who testifies to these things and has written them, and we know that his testimony is true. There are also many other things that Jesus did, but if these were to be described individually, I do not think the whole world would contain the books that would be written.

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Glory and Love in Trinity

A snail and three tulips reflect on John 17:20-26: "Abba in me and I in thee: Glory and Love in Trinity!"
โ€œGlory and Love in Trinityโ€
John 17:20-26 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Thursday of the Seventh Week of Easter
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Gospel

John 17:20-26

โ€œI pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,ย so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me.ย … Read the rest

I Am Not Alone

Photo of snail and tulip with text overlay of John 16:32, "I am not alone, for the Father is with me."
โ€œI Am Not Aloneโ€
John 16:32, abridged
Monday of the Seventh Week of Easter
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him.

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