Mary M. McGlone

Scripture for Life: God does not parachute in to solve everything. It's not that easy. God shares this hope with us — that we will follow the Spirit's inspiration to resolve the world's hopelessness.

Scripture for Life: Today's Gospel question asks how we might practice the creative compassion that incarnates the kingdom of God in a suffering world.

Scripture for Life: Jesus offers his life, himself, as a gift to the world to nourish us as the Father nourishes him. 

Scripture for Life: What kind of renewal does the Spirit bring to the face of Earth? Our official church teaching offers an answer that will not be comfortable for all of us.

Scripture for Life: Today's feast invites us to admit our own frustrated desires for certainty in the midst of doubts or weakness of faith. The disciples didn't have all the answers. What they did have was a mandate.

Scripture for Life: The love Christ talks about is not primarily an emotion, but an embrace of our shared identity as creatures, human beings invited into the same life, the same depth, the same identity in God.

Scripture for Life: Are we there yet? No, and we won't be until the end. "There" happens when all is one in Christ and in the Father, and as long as there is life, we are on the way. 

Scripture for Life: When Jesus the Good Shepherd says that he calls each sheep by name, he's saying that he knows each of them uniquely, loving their distinct gifts, talents, desires and limitations.

Scripture for Life: The disciples' carrying the sorrows of the world was a type of penitential rite — begging to see God's mercy in the midst of tragedy. This begins the liturgy Luke's Emmaus story suggests for us.

Scripture for Life: Easter proclaims that we, the motley communities of our family, neighborhood, parish, church and world, can live in such a way that others see wonders and signs of what can be.

Scripture for Life: On this Easter morn, let us heed the command to start again, to reinterpret everything in our own lives and all of history in the light of Christ's definitive victory over evil.

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?