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Whom Should You Fear?

A photo of a snail snail and verbena flowers with text overlay of the Shalom Snail couplet, "Whom Should You Fear?"
“Whom Should You Fear?”
A reflection on Luke 12:4-5
Friday of the Twenty-Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang

Who truly holds power over your soul—earthly threats or the One who judges for eternity?

I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body but after that can do no more.

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Let the Children Come to Me

Photo of snail amid verbena speaking the Shalom Snail couplet.
“Let the Children Come to Me”
Matthew 19:13-15 “in a snailshell”
Saturday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang

Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked them, but Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

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