Friday morning’s homily on how, at least for Christians, we should open ourselves to suffering before we open our mouths (and what’s off about YouTube evangelism). open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...

Today’s homily from the morning Mass, on God’s strange calculation. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...

Notes from today’s homily, on misreading Romans 13 and why we Christians owe only love. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...

Homily notes for today’s daily Mass… open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...

Notes from the homily from this evening’s daily Mass… open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...

The homily from this evening’s Parish Requiem. Really one of our holiest moments in then life of our community. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...

Today’s homily for All Souls. “How we care for the dead is not something we make up as we go along.” open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...

“To hope for all souls is imperative...” -G. K. Chesterton

A homily for All Saints on the Kingdom we should remember. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...

“Be my soul with the Saints!” -St. John Henry Newman

Want to go to Rome, Assisi, and Cascia to see St. Rita? My good friend Dr. Kathryn Rombs and I are leading a pilgrimage this summer. The theme is motherhood, Mother Church and Mother Saints. It was be a beautiful experience. Reach out to me if you’re interested!

Jeff and Mayra are my parishioners. They are amazing people, brilliant and faithful. So many of my parishioners, moved by faith, just do so many amazing things, so much unseen. Praise the Lord for them and all the people of God who just get on with it. www.americamagazine.org/features/202...

“…the cathedral provokes a contemptuous world.” -Rainer Maria Rilke

Texas homecoming fun!

“Allow Christ to find you.” -St. John Paul II

A few thoughts of mine for Our Sunday Visitor on this Sunday’s gospel reading. “We Christians feel our desire for the kingdom.” www.oursundayvisitor.com/grit-and-lon...

So we hung out tonight with Joey Chestnut, the Michael Jordan of competitive eating. Good chat, good dude, down to earth, I was impressed by him honestly. Funniest thing he said to me: “Dude, I still love a good hot dog!”

Was fun to sit down and talk with Trinity FC’s goalie, Rylee Foster, the other day. She does indeed get my vote for the toughest athlete in Dallas. A Friday column from me for the Dallas Morning News. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

"We should then really live as Christians and not merely have the name..." -St. Ignatius of Antioch

“But above all, preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any treasure.” -St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Those few bearing kindness to unlike others, those few un-rude, civil, gentle: those few are light, those few are hope.

“We could make a real improvement in human life, but we shan’t do it without the recognition that common decency is necessary.” -George Orwell

“Ingratitude is the soul’s enemy...” -St. Bernard of Clairvaux

A few thoughts on Sunday’s gospel reading, on the humility demanded of Christians. “The Christian should seek to imitate in every instance the humility of Jesus…” www.oursundayvisitor.com/servants-cal...

Thanks ⁦Church Life Journal‬⁩ for giving me space to think out loud about Sunday and Sabbath. Sunday isn’t really about whatever we might call our “work-life balance” but about something much deeper. That’s what I’m trying to get at, that deeper thing. churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/why...

My Sunday homily: “My job simply is to repeat to you the teaching of Jesus Christ, and to tell you that Jesus did in fact mean what he said…” fatherjoshuawhitfield.com/homily-poor-...

My column for ⁦‪the Dallas Morning News‬⁩ in tomorrow’s paper, about something Parkland Hospital taught me. “Parkland Hospital is a democracy of suffering. But it is also a democracy of charity. It taught me about being human…” www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

A homily for Sunday, on monsters. “That’s something I can tell you—God sees you, so good luck and be careful.” fatherjoshuawhitfield.com/homily-monst...

My notes on Sunday’s gospel: “Chillingly, he underlines a stark spiritual fact we do not like to think about, the possibility that our bank account and our budget, our income and expenses, do indeed measure our soul.” www.oursundayvisitor.com/from-mammon-...

My homily for today, this Feast of the Cross. “And yes, it will cost you something to love like that.” fatherjoshuawhitfield.com/homily-love-...

Good conversation with my friends from In Goodfaith on the good and the bad of youth sports. open.spotify.com/episode/5QHE...

Today’s homily on thinking twice about becoming a Christian. “People will wonder what’s got into you; your family and friends may even try to dissuade you, stop you from carrying out all that simple yet radical stuff Jesus teaches.” fatherjoshuawhitfield.com/homily-if-th...

My thoughts on Sunday’s gospel reading for ⁦‪Our Sunday Visitor‬⁩. “Being a Christian can’t be a side gig. Being a fake Christian can, but not a real one.” www.oursundayvisitor.com/the-cost-of-...

My homily from today on humility and its demonic rival. “Isn’t it beautiful how humility makes a person truly charitable?” fatherjoshuawhitfield.com/homily-on-av...

A homily for the Sunday on the courage of awkwardness. “It’s often awkward being the person of faith…” fatherjoshuawhitfield.com/homily-the-c...

These are tough days. A few words of mine for the Dallas Morning News. “Another shooting, a nation and world in chaos, a world of strongmen and wrong men, what are you to do in a world like ours? What are you to do tomorrow?” www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

A homily for today on the knowledge you can’t fake. “Do you know him? Do you really know him? The thing is, we don’t get to answer that question; he does.” fatherjoshuawhitfield.com/homily-the-k...

Thinking out loud for Our Sunday Visitor on this Sunday’s Gospel. “Is your faith not really faith but instead just an inherited cultural form? If so, this passage should frighten you very much.” www.oursundayvisitor.com/living-in-th...

“And Mary is the Queen of them. She is the Queen of spiritual flowers…” -St. John Henry Newman

My homily from Sunday on the unbearable words of Jeremiah and Jesus. open.spotify.com/episode/5Bj7...

It’s just as possible the devil’s responsible for all your wealth. Wealth is no sign you’ve been blessed by the Lord. Generosity is.

My homily for this Sunday. “I’ll be honest, I would have been on the side of the princes here and not the side of the prophet, and my guess is that so would most of you.” fatherjoshuawhitfield.com/homily-the-u...

Had the joy of preaching two homilies this Sunday. Here’s my second Sunday homily. “How do you expect to live without fear if you’ve made no real attempt to change your life?” fatherjoshuawhitfield.com/homily-the-o...

My homily for the Vigil Mass: “Jesus is saying that God has given us heaven now, that we can live like we would in heaven now—loving our enemies, forgiving them, making friends with the poor, not fearing the sting of death—now, right now, starting now.” fatherjoshuawhitfield.com/homily-paren...

My Our Sunday Visitor thoughts on Sunday’s gospel reading. “The kingdom has been given in Christ today too, so what are we waiting for? Why aren’t we sharing our possessions now?” www.oursundayvisitor.com/the-treasure...

My Sunday homily on demagogic, dangerous rich fools and how not to be one. open.spotify.com/episode/3cAs...

Today’s homily on being rich and a fool: “Anyway, it’s an interesting answer to a question about inheritance. Consider that you may die today.” fatherjoshuawhitfield.com/homily-how-n...

My Sunday homily on the journey from restlessness to rest—a journey of prayer and love. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

A homily for today on never giving up. “And I know how unhelpful that advice can sound. Don’t give up? That’s all you got? Well, yes.” fatherjoshuawhitfield.com/homily-peace...

Thoughts on Sunday’s gospel reading on what I think praying the Lord’s Prayer is meant to do to us. “I think the purpose of the Lord’s Prayer is that it forms us in Christ…” www.oursundayvisitor.com/formed-by-th...