Be ready for Mass on the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time! Father Joshua Whitfield reflects on the dangers of spiritual blindness and arrogance, the desire to impress others rather than to serve God: “The point is simple; it’s about the spiritual dangers
Be ready for Mass on the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time! Father Joshua Whitfield examines how the Pharisees try to entrap Jesus by asking, “Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not?" After viewing a Roman coin, Jesus
Be ready for Mass on the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. Father Joshua Whitfield focuses on Paul’s astounding invitation to be anxious about nothing at all. But there is a challenge. Refitted for our own time, then perhaps Paul’s advice would go
Be ready for Mass on the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Father Joshua Whitfield reflects on the parable of the landowner who hires laborers for his vineyard. The parable teaches us something about the inscrutable justice of God and the strange calculations
Be ready for Mass on the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Father Joshua Whitfield reflects on the words “against you” in Matthew’s Gospel, “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.” With the
Be ready for Mass on the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time! Father Joshua Whitfield reflects on Jesus giving the keys of heaven to Peter. What Peter opens is opened too; what Peter shuts is shut too. But what’s opened or closed through
Be ready for Mass on the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time! Father Joshua Whitfield reflects upon Peter walking on water. He became afraid and sank. Jesus called Peter to do miraculous things and he calls us to do extraordinary things. Father Whitfield
Be ready for Mass on the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time! Father Joshua Whitfield explores the challenges posed by the parables of this week’s Gospel: “Jesus is trying to tell the people right in front of him that the kingdom is at
Be ready for Mass on the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time! Father Joshua Whitfield explores the parable of the sower. Jesus sows the seed. His word is seed, and our souls are soil. Father Whitfield explains: Jesus is “talking about everything that
Be ready for Mass on the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time! Father Joshua Whitfield explores the words of Jesus from Matthew 10:37: “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. … To choose Christ over the world