
A reflection on Mark 2:18-22
Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time
ยฉ๏ธ2022 Gloria M. Chang
Discover the joy of the new wine of the bridegroom: Christ brings fresh grace that old forms cannot contain.… Read the rest

Journey to Wholeness

Discover the joy of the new wine of the bridegroom: Christ brings fresh grace that old forms cannot contain.… Read the rest

In November during this Jubilee Year of Hope 2025, I had the privilege of traveling to Italy with a group of pilgrims from Brooklyn and Queens.… Read the rest

The eternal Bridegroom and Bride form heavenโs royal temple, sealed in divine splendor.
Like a bridegroom adorned with a diadem,
Isaiah 61:10c
as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Biblical marriage between a bridegroom and his bride has royal, sacred, and cosmic significance. … Read the rest

… Read the restThe disciples of John approached Jesus and said, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but your disciples do not fast?โ

… Read the restOn the third day there was a wedding in Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus

13th Week in Ordinary Time, Saturday (Year II)
Amos 9:11-15; Matthew 9:14-17
The disciples of John approached Jesus and said, โWhy do we and the Pharisees fast much, but your disciples do not fast?โ
Jesus and the Twelve must have appeared to the mourning disciples of the beheaded John the Baptist as a spiritually undisciplined band.… Read the rest