FrJoshTX
@frjoshtx.bsky.social
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.
Today’s homily on one of my favorite saints, on the miraculous and the mundane.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Today’s homily on one of my favorite saints, on the miraculous and the mundane.
open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
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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!
October 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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!
“…the cathedral provokes a contemptuous world.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
-Rainer Maria Rilke
October 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“…the cathedral provokes a contemptuous world.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Texas homecoming fun!
October 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Texas homecoming fun!
“Allow Christ to find you.”
-St. John Paul II
-St. John Paul II
October 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“Allow Christ to find you.”
-St. John Paul II
-St. John Paul II
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!”
October 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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!”
“But above all, preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any treasure.”
-St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
-St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
October 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
“But above all, preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any treasure.”
-St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
-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.
October 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Those few bearing kindness to unlike others, those few un-rude, civil, gentle: those few are light, those few are hope.
“And Mary is the Queen of them. She is the Queen of spiritual flowers…”
-St. John Henry Newman
-St. John Henry Newman
August 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“And Mary is the Queen of them. She is the Queen of spiritual flowers…”
-St. John Henry Newman
-St. John Henry Newman
As a holy old saintly Cistercian told me many times: “Bow down before your priesthood every day.” I try to remember that, to live it. Grateful, on this birthday and ordination anniversary of mine, this feast day of martyrs, for this sacred priesthood, frail though this vessel be.
June 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
As a holy old saintly Cistercian told me many times: “Bow down before your priesthood every day.” I try to remember that, to live it. Grateful, on this birthday and ordination anniversary of mine, this feast day of martyrs, for this sacred priesthood, frail though this vessel be.
The first martyrs of Rome, remembered the day after we celebrate Peter and Paul, teach us a simple lesson, and that is that bearing sacrificial witness is not reserved to the clerical, the ecclesiastical good and great. Rather, to bear witness is for each of us, each Christian.
June 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The first martyrs of Rome, remembered the day after we celebrate Peter and Paul, teach us a simple lesson, and that is that bearing sacrificial witness is not reserved to the clerical, the ecclesiastical good and great. Rather, to bear witness is for each of us, each Christian.
Tacos with the family on a Saturday evening, Our Lady of Guadalupe in the corner, good vibes, friendly people. As every real Texan knows, this is Texas, beautiful Texas, the Texas that is also Mexico. ¡Viva Cristo Rey!
June 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Tacos with the family on a Saturday evening, Our Lady of Guadalupe in the corner, good vibes, friendly people. As every real Texan knows, this is Texas, beautiful Texas, the Texas that is also Mexico. ¡Viva Cristo Rey!
The Immaculate Heart answers the Sacred Heart.
June 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The Immaculate Heart answers the Sacred Heart.
Our hearts, restless. God’s heart, rest.
June 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Our hearts, restless. God’s heart, rest.
Our parish’s first 40 Hours Devotion ever, or at least since anyone can remember, soon to draw to a close. May many graces come from this. Many already have.
“Shadows flee that truth may stay…”
“Shadows flee that truth may stay…”
June 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Our parish’s first 40 Hours Devotion ever, or at least since anyone can remember, soon to draw to a close. May many graces come from this. Many already have.
“Shadows flee that truth may stay…”
“Shadows flee that truth may stay…”
Prayed for a lot outside a sacred place.
June 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Prayed for a lot outside a sacred place.
At Fort Sumter this morning, hearing history rhyme.
June 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
At Fort Sumter this morning, hearing history rhyme.
Visiting Charleston for the first time. Finished “Charleston” by @scrawford.bsky.social on the plane. Excellent, sobering, a must read. It certainly helps me see this beautiful place a bit more clearly—the streets, the water, the people, the entire antediluvian reality of it.
June 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Visiting Charleston for the first time. Finished “Charleston” by @scrawford.bsky.social on the plane. Excellent, sobering, a must read. It certainly helps me see this beautiful place a bit more clearly—the streets, the water, the people, the entire antediluvian reality of it.
Sunday afternoons are for Pete interpreting Picasso for his sisters.
May 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Sunday afternoons are for Pete interpreting Picasso for his sisters.
To be in communion with the Successor of Peter: there is a sense to it, a consolation to it; it’s something one feels; it stirs a thankful tear. It is to taste the truth of John 17. It is to feel the truth of John 21:15-19. And it is a precious gift.
May 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
To be in communion with the Successor of Peter: there is a sense to it, a consolation to it; it’s something one feels; it stirs a thankful tear. It is to taste the truth of John 17. It is to feel the truth of John 21:15-19. And it is a precious gift.
“It is in the wounds of Christ the Church builds its nest and waits...”
-St. Thomas Aquinas
-St. Thomas Aquinas
April 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“It is in the wounds of Christ the Church builds its nest and waits...”
-St. Thomas Aquinas
-St. Thomas Aquinas
“We, too, are in the kingdom of grace without knowing it.”
-St. John Henry Newman
-St. John Henry Newman
April 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“We, too, are in the kingdom of grace without knowing it.”
-St. John Henry Newman
-St. John Henry Newman
To Puget Sound with the boy this week. Perfect.
March 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
To Puget Sound with the boy this week. Perfect.
More and more in this silly world, I find Thomas Merton a friend and guide.
February 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
More and more in this silly world, I find Thomas Merton a friend and guide.
“I do not want what eyes can love.”
-St. Agnes
St. Agnes, pray for us!
-St. Agnes
St. Agnes, pray for us!
January 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
“I do not want what eyes can love.”
-St. Agnes
St. Agnes, pray for us!
-St. Agnes
St. Agnes, pray for us!