Journey to Wholeness
… Read the rest“Stop judging, that you may not be judged. For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.
“Love of Enemies” (3 panels)
Matthew 5:43-48 in a quatrain
Tuesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang
You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ … Read the rest
Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.… Read the rest
Blind Bartimaeus cried out in faith—and Jesus opened his eyes.
They came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a sizable crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind man, the son of Timaeus, sat by the roadside begging.… Read the rest
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Peter began to say to him, “We have given up everything and followed you.” Jesus said, “Amen, 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
For the law was given through Moses;
John 1:17 (RSV)
grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Your word, O Lord, is truth.
Consecrate us in the truth.
“Do 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.
Jesus calls ordinary fishermen to become fishers of men, inviting us to say “amen” to his adventure of faith.
… Read the restAfter John had been arrested, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God: “This is the time of fulfillment.
God’s promise blooms eternally: restoring the Garden of Eden, where justice and praise spring forth in fragrant abundance.
… Read the restAs 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.
