Be ready for Mass on the Third Sunday of Lent! Father Joshua Whitfield examines how a humble God humbles us in the story of the Samaritan woman at the well. The woman belongs to a people with whom good Jews had no
Be ready for Mass on the First Sunday of Lent. Father Joshua Whitfield encourages us to stay strong to God’s word. In the readings from Genesis and Matthew, Father Whitfield writes: “The devil tests the Lord just as he tested Eve and
Be ready for Mass on the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time! Father Joshua Whitfield reflects on the stirring of grace when Jesus bothers us or annoys us, thus drawing us closer to him: “To be nervous about holiness, to fear being a
Be ready for Mass on the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time! Father Joshua Whitfield reflects on the virtue of humility and its importance in living the Beatitudes, in fact, the Bible writes: “The Sermon on the Mount, and in fact the entire
Be reading for Mass on the Second Week of Ordinary Time. This week, Father Joshua Whitfield writes that John the Baptist sees Jesus coming toward him and testifies. John the Baptist sees the Spirit remain on Jesus; as Isaiah foretold, “the spirit
Be ready for Mass this Sunday, the solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God. In this week’s reflection, Father Josh Whitfield writes: “When Marian devotion is part of healthy Catholic experience, one’s Catholic experience is theologically sound. That is,
Be ready for Mass the Fourth Sunday of Advent! Father Joshua Whitfield focuses on the consolation of Joseph. Joseph couldn’t have discerned on his own that “it is through the Holy Spirit that this child has been conceived in’ Mary. He needed
Preparing us for the second Sunday of Advent, Father Joshua Whitfield focuses our attention on the desert. He speaks of St. Augustine, who in his search for God, found it difficult to be stripped of all the props of one’s personality, one’s
In this week’s Opening the Word for the solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, Father Joshua Whitfield writes about the opportunity whispered to us. “Injustice and violence abound, suffering too,” he writes. “But how do we respond to
In this week’s Opening the Word, Father Joshua Whitfield reflects upon Jesus’ argument with Sadducees about the afterlife, asking whose wife, a woman married multiple times, will be in heaven. Father Whitfield writes: “Jesus’ answer basically is to say that resurrected life