Mary M. McGlone

St. Joseph Sr. Mary M. McGlone serves on the congregational leadership team of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.

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A man prays during perpetual adoration at St. John the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis during the opening of the National Eucharistic Congress July 17, 2024. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ: Proclaiming the presence

Scripture for Life: What if we considered our everyday activities as being like a procession manifesting the presence of Christ among us? 

Grandmother kisses a baby on the hand (Unsplash/Tamara Govedarovic)

Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity: We become who we are through relationships

Scripture for Life: As we celebrate our loving relationships, let us also take prayerful time to become more aware of how these loves make us who we are.

A woman prays during a eucharistic procession through the Manhattan borough of New York City to St. Patrick's Cathedral for a Pentecost Vigil May 27, 2023. (OSV News/Jeffrey Bruno)

Pentecost Sunday: The Spirit is leading you to something deeper

Today's feast reminds us that God not only chose to dwell among us, but to dwell in us. That mutual indwelling grows for a lifetime. It fulfills every human life.

A crucifix hangs before a mural depicting the Resurrection in the sanctuary at St. Timothy Parish in Mesa, Arizona, in this undated file photo. (OSV News/Catholic Sun/J.D. Long-Garcia)

Seventh Sunday of Easter: What's it all about?

Scripture for Life: As we come to the end of our Easter season, we can ask, "What have we learned? How have we changed? Has our faith in the resurrection of Christ given us courage and freed us from fear?"

A concrete floor displays the words "#Love one another" written in chalk (Unsplash/Jon Tyson)

Fifth Sunday of Easter: Love one another

Scripture for Life: It is one thing to say, "Love one another." But here, Jesus takes it to the extreme: "Love one another as I have loved you." Whoa! That definitely belongs to the new heaven and earth.

Police arrest the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (foreground) and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy at a Civil Rights demonstration in Birmingham, Ala., on April 12, 1963. (AP)

Third Sunday of Easter: What does it mean to love?

Scripture for Life: Let us call to mind and heart the insights or events that have moved us to express our faith in action, how our work contributes to Christ's mission, and the meaning of our baptism and communion. 

A mosaic at the Cathedral of Monreale, Italy, depicts the resurrected Christ appearing to the apostles. (Wikimedia Commons/José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Second Sunday of Easter: Receive Christ's peace

Scripture for Life: The Easter season offers us the opportunity to let ourselves be perplexed and even to doubt as we wait for the good news to saturate our souls.

The statue of the Risen Christ on top of the facade of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican

Easter: 'Christ will come again'

Scripture for Life: The resurrection is not a mystery to be clung to, but a practice to develop in ever new and deeper ways. 

Christians carry palm fronds as they walk the traditional path that Jesus took on his last entry into Jerusalem during the Palm Sunday procession on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem April 2, 2023.

Palm Sunday: Hope even in the darkest end

Today, evil seems so present that the faithful cry out with Jesus, "My God, why have you abandoned us?" In his account of Jesus' passion, Luke invites us to enter into the scene to learn what Jesus teaches his disciples.

Painting: "Christ and the woman taken in adultery" (1612) by Frans Francken the Younger (Artvee)

Fifth Sunday of Lent: Sin no more

Scripture for Life: As we move toward Holy Week, these readings invite us to approach the mysteries with eyes ready to perceive God's love working through everything — even the worst events imaginable. 

Burundian volunteers serve food to displaced families at Rugombo Stadium in Burundi, Feb. 18, 2025, after Congolese fled from renewed clashes between M23 rebels and the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (OSV News/Reuters/Evrard Ngendakumana)

Third Sunday of Lent: God's saving action

What do these readings offer us as we reach the halfway stage of our Lenten journey? First, they warn us against judging others, reminding us that nobody deserves the life God gives us and that God is never the source of suffering.

The Transfiguration, depicted on the ceiling of the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Providence, R.I. (Wikimedia Commons/Farragutful)

Second Sunday of Lent: The destiny of everything

Scripture for Life: In these first two weeks of Lent, we've begun a new stage of our Holy Year pilgrimage. We've seen human frailty and the glory of what humanity can become. 

The sun sets behind a desert view in the Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area in Cave Creek, Arizona. (CNS/Nancy Wiechec)

First Sunday of Lent: The sacrifice of time

Scripture for Life: Lent is our time to allow divine love to touch us so deeply that we begin to see like Jesus did, and thus act in his name. 

Virtual glasses using artificial intelligence are seen in this photo. (CNS/Reuters/Yves Herman)

Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Husks, grain and AI

Scripture for Life: Today's question seems to be, what will lead us to wisdom of heart? 

Miraculous catch of fish, detail from a stained glass window in St. Colman's Cathedral, Cobh, Ireland (Teresa Malcolm)

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time: From spectator to prophet

Scripture of Life: When the experience of evil feels as palpable as the mysterium, we may well be afraid. Yet, our very distress constitutes the call to stand up against destruction and injustice.

Turn of the golden key (Dreamstime/Konstantin Sutyagin)

Feast of the Presentation of the Lord: The first turn of the golden key

Scripture for Life: Christ's birth and reception by the simple made the first turn of the golden key. Now it is ours to dare the second turn and exercise the humility to be open to wonderful and challenging treasures we have never imagined. 

The Holy Spirit, traditionally depicted as a dove, is pictured in a stained-glass window at St. John Vianney Church in Lithia Springs, Georgia, in this May 4, 2015, file photo. (CNS/Georgia Bulletin/Michael Alexander)

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time: 'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me'

Scripture for Life: Remembering Paul's message that no gift is lesser or unnecessary, we can ask the Spirit how to use those gifts for the good of all.

Pope Francis prays after walking through the Holy Door to inaugurate the Jubilee Year of Mercy in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this Dec. 8, 2015, file photo. In the background at left is retired Pope Benedict XVI. The pope has approved the theme, "Pilgrims of Hope," to be the motto for the Holy Year 2025. (CNS/Vatican Media)

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time: A jubilee of hope

Scripture for Life: In this Jubilee Year, we are invited to be pilgrims of hope. Our hour has come. 

Pope Francis baptizes a baby during Mass in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Jan. 7, 2024, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. (CNS/Vatican Media)

The Baptism of the Lord: The precedent Jesus set

Scripture for Life: Baptism is supposed to make us eccentric like Jesus, people who get noticed because their behavior falls outside the "norm."

The adoration of the Magi is depicted in a painting in the Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. (CNS/Nancy Phelan Wiechec)

The Epiphany of the Lord: Seeing anew with the Magi

Scripture for Life: The pilgrim Magi remind us that we too are invited to be humble enough to see something new. They help us realize that there is always more to discover in God's mysteries.