Taking a break in my What We Believe summer series, but I will be back at it soon enough. Thanks for reading! open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
Thank You!
What We Believe, an intermission
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FrJoshTX
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Catholic Priest at St. Rita, Dallas + Author: Why Sunday Matters (Wipf and Stock) + The Crisis of Bad Preaching (Ave Maria Press)+ Eucharist (Liturgical Press). Also at times, The Dallas Morning News, et. al.
Concluding our too brief exploration of the Eucharist in the Bible, we step back to see it all within the frame of Genesis to Revelation, discovering what the Eucharist is ultimately about: the re-Edening of things. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
Eden Again and the New Covenant
What We Believe 41
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Today’s What We Believe looks at what St. Paul taught regarding the Eucharist, what he learned from the Lord and handed on to us. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
Paul and the Tradition of the Lord
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“I should make use of darkness or light...” -St. Ignatius of Loyola
Today’s What We Believe explores the Eucharist in the Gospels. Again, the beauty of it, when you see it, will change you. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
The Eucharist in the Gospels
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I’ll conclude this What We Believe summer series with a few reflections on the Eucharist, beginning in an interesting and mystical place, Sinai. The Eucharist is at the center of things. Beginning at Sinai, we begin to see how. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
Seeing God on Sinai
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Today’s What We Believe is about Confirmation, that beautiful sacrament of the Spirit’s strength. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
Confirmation, the Anointed and the anointed
What We Believe 36
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Today’s homily is on seeking the rest we all seek. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
The Bedroom
A Homily for the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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My thoughts on Sunday’s Gospel for Our Sunday Visitor. www.osvnews.com/parable-less...
Parable lessons for a weary world - OSV News
It's astounding how deeply these parables of the kingdom touch us.
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In today’s What We Believe, we take a quick look at the question of infant baptism. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
But What About Infant Baptism?
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In today’s What We Believe we explore a little how baptism was understood in the early Church. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
Baptism in the Early Church
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Today’s What We Believe explores Paul’s beautiful teaching on Baptism. And it is beautiful. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
Life in Christ
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In today’s What We Believe we explore what the Gospels teach about baptism. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
As Jesus Commanded
What We Believe 32
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In my What We Believe series, I now turn to the sacraments, to Baptism first. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
Be Baptized Every One of You
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Today’s homily is on ignorance, wheat and weeds. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
Wheat, Weeds, Ignorance
A homily for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Today’s What We Believe concludes our discussion of scripture and tradition, thinking about the final purpose of it all, which is simply the gift of the vision of Christ. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
The Vision of Christ
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In today’s What We Believe we talk about something called the Magisterium and how we Catholics read and argue about scripture and interpret it within the Church. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
Scripture and the Church
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Today’s What We Believe is about the rule of faith and event of revelation. That is, it’s about how we encounter the living Christ as we encounter scripture and tradition within the Church. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
The Rule of Faith the Event of Revelation
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Today’s What We Believe is about scripture, tradition, dogma, and the impossibility of sola scriptura. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
Tradition and Dogma
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Today’s What We Believe is on apostolic tradition and how the great Irenaeus can help us tell the true faith from the false faith. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
Apostolic Tradition
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Today’s homily is about groaning and hope. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
The Three Groanings
A homily for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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“Every book I own, I need. My library is my manual for life.” A brother in books, this man is an inspiration. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/s...
Too Many Books?
Mendel Uminer faced a crisis when his landlord objected to the 10,000 volumes in his New York studio apartment.
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Today’s What We Believe looks at how the Scripture relates to tradition, how the Scripture is always apostolic, how you really can’t read the Bible without the Church. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
Scripture Apostolic
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Today’s What We Believe is simple. It’s on how the Scripture shows us how to love. It’s a beautiful truth St. Augustine taught. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
Showing Us How To Love
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In today’s What We Believe we underline the simple truth that the Christ we encounter is not the reconstructed Christ of imagination or even the best research but always the scriptural Christ. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
Christ According to Scripture
What We Believe
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Today we turn to the Bible. If our saving encounter is an encounter with the Body of Christ, well, that body communicates, and one way it communicates is through the Scripture. Today’s What We Believe. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
What Scripture is For
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In What We Believe, we’ve explored how Christ calls us to be one, calls us into the Church. Now we look at just how you and I encounter this Church, entering into the oneness Jesus prays for. We turn now to Scripture and Sacrament. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
Sacramental Communion, Sacramental Pilgrimage
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Sunday’s homily on prophets and human kings. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
Prophets and Human Kings
A homily for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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“We find rest in those whom we love.” -St. Bernard of Clairvaux
In today’s What We Believe we explore the Roman Catholic claim that the Church “subsists in” the Roman Catholic Church. It’s quite a claim, so how do we get our head around it? open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
The Church One and Visible
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