Christ Fulfills the Law

โ€œChrist Fulfills the Lawโ€
Matthew 5:17-18 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Wednesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.

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Blind Bartimaeus


โ€œBlind Bartimaeusโ€
Mark 10:46-52 โ€œin a snailshellโ€
Thursday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

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.

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The Mission of the Son of Man

โ€œThe Son of Man did not come to be served but to serveโ€
Mark 10:45
Wednesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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One in Your Name

โ€œOne in Your Nameโ€
John 17:11, abridged
Seventh Sunday of Easter (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

Pray then like this: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Matthew 6:9 (RSV)

Holy Father, keep them in your name, 
that they may be one just as we are.

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No Greater Love

โ€œNo Greater Loveโ€
John 15:13
Sixth Sunday of Easter (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

John 10:11

Greater love has no one than this: 
to lay down oneโ€™s life for oneโ€™s friends.

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Honey From the Rock

โ€œHoney From the Rockโ€
Solemnity of Corpus Christi
Office of Readings, Antiphon 3
Adapted from Psalm 81:16 (17)
ยฉ๏ธ2021 Gloria M. Chang

But Israel I will feed with the finest wheat,
I will satisfy them with honey from the rock.

Psalm 81:16 (17)

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea, and all of them were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. All

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I Am the Resurrection

โ€œAll Soulsโ€™ Day Benedictus” (16 panels)
ยฉ๏ธ2020 by Gloria M. Chang

The Benedictus antiphon, โ€œI am the Resurrection, I am the Life; to believe in me means life, in spite of death, and all who believe and live in me shall never die,โ€ is taken from the Liturgy of the Hours for All Soulsโ€™ Day.… Read the rest

The Fading Tower of Babel

โ€œThe Fading Tower of Babelโ€
A reflection on Genesis 11:1-9, Isaiah 2:2, Revelation, Psalm 87
ยฉ๏ธ2022 by Gloria M. Chang

The city of monolithic brick
Recedes before the mountain mystic.

The whole world had the same language and the same words.ย 

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