Mary M. McGlone

Scripture for Life: As we move toward celebrating the holiest week of our liturgical year, God continues to say, "If only you believe, you will experience my death transforming glory, my life-giving Spirit, my future."

Scripture for Life: Jesus' healing action for the blind man — which happened on a Sabbath — spurred deeper questions: How and when does God act in our world? What does God want from us?

Scripture for Life: Our God thirsts for real presence, for contentious or questioning prayer, for genuine interaction that opens us.

Scripture for Life: The story of the Transfiguration bids us to let go of inadequate images of God in order to discover something new. Free of our preconceptions, we can be surprised by God's unimaginable designs.

Scripture for Life: Lent offers us the opportunity to spend time asking ourselves who we are at our core and who God wants to help us become. Growing in our identity as daughters and sons of God will continue until we take our last breath. 

Scripture for Life: Jesus taught his disciples to live like he did because loving and cherishing each person is the only way to happiness and to grow our humanity and thus in union with our Trinitarian God. 

Scripture for Life: How are we called to be hot peppers in society? Surely, we don't lack for situations begging for the spice of the Gospel.

Scripture for Life: The more we learn to humbly accept what we do not deserve, the more natural it will be for us to give lavishly with humble, compassionate, generous and merciful love.

Scripture for Life: Looking at those first disciples challenges us. It's easy to go to Mass, to sing with a great choir and eat donuts with people afterward. There's no danger in that. But is that all that we are invited to as disciples?

Scripture for Life: In Christ, the Lamb of God, we are called and therefore capable of bringing God's light to our world. Today, we are the ones Isaiah proclaims, formed from the womb to gather the people together.

Scripture for Life: Jesus' baptism reminds us that he was one of us. He revealed that we humans must allow ourselves to be fragile, seeking and willing to change course when love calls for it.

Scripture for Life: The feast of the Epiphany reminds us that the good news is for everyone of every age. Its proclamation can bring great joy or cause terrible consternation, depending on what each person or society values.

Scripture for Life: Family and community are webs of relationships in which we call forth one another's humanity. More than that, family and community exhibit what it means to be in the image and likeness of our Trinitarian God.

Scripture for Life: We, like Joseph, are invited to empty ourselves, choosing to abandon anything that can get in the way of our union with God or our collaboration with God's design for creation.

Scripture for Life: God has given birth to a creation capable of participating in divine life. Jesus gave a replicable witness to that truth. Like him, we need to pray without ceasing to open ourselves to grace.

Scripture for Life: The time is ripe; this is the moment to make straight the paths, to remind ourselves that Christ is alive and the Spirit is active among us.

Scripture for Life: Do we want salvation in the mode of Christ the King, or shall we look for another?

Scripture for Life: These are messianic times, the day of the Lord is here and coming. Jesus' command, "be not deceived," implies that as we discern, our prayerful judgment on our era must lead to giving witness.

Scripture for Life: Paul asked bluntly, "Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?" If he asked the same of us today, with what depth of conviction could we say yes?

Scripture for Life: This Sunday's readings tell us we are capable of realizing how deeply united we are as God's creatures. We are created to live in full union with God and one another: here and hereafter, altogether, all at once.