Father Joshua J. Whitfield provides a reflection on the readings and Gospel for the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Oct. 5, ...

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” and, “Father, forgive them.” With those words, Jesus forgave you and me and all ...

Luke 14:26 (RSV) If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. The same ...

According to the Gospels, Jesus foresaw his own death. In the Gospel of Matthew, for example, he shares with his disciples that “he must go to Jerusalem and suffer… and be killed and on the third day ...

Last Friday we continued our look into the command Christ gave to His church, as recorded in Matthew 28:18-20, the command that has come to be known as “the Great Commission.” We discovered that a ...

"God’s way is sometimes not the way we want because we will still experience pain and suffering in life. But we are not alone ...

On Friday, we walked to Calvary with Hans Küng as our guide on the passion and death of Jesus, his reflections in On Being a Christian pointing us to the critical, yet often scuttled, fact: Jesus died ...

We’ve heard the Great Commission many times. We may even be able to recite these words of Jesus. But do we believe them? By that, I mean, “Do we seek to obey Christ’s command in the Great Commission?

When Jesus calls to a group of fishermen at the Sea of Galilee, they leave everything behind to follow him. The story is simple, but powerful. What was it about this man and his invitation that ...

Jesus tells his disciples in John 14:23-29 that he'll be leaving them soon, but he will not leave them alone, not leave them to their own devices. Jesus promises to send them an advocate, the Holy ...