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

Scripture is clear that both go hand in hand. In seminary, my discipleship courses had a particular focus: passing on what the apostles had taught about doctrines like the Atonement and practices like ...

Reading the Gospel accounts of Good Friday, the first thing that strikes one is the degree to which the Hebrew Scriptures are present in the text. The early Christians were trying to make sense of ...

Last Sunday’s Gospel ended with an invitation for someone in a less esteemed seat at a banquet to move up to a more honorable one. This was meant to encourage all disciples to seek humility as a means ...

The primary scriptures, the Vedas and the Upanishads, are ideally learnt from a guru and the oral method of transmission that has prevailed since days of yore is shown to have been efficacious in ...

Likewise, Jesus invites each of us to come unto Him, and it is our response to this invitation that makes us a true disciple.  Calling the disciples who would become His apostles and closest ...

The Guru in Tattva Bodha outlines the qualities of a fit disciple in four parts of Viveka—right discrimination; Vairagya (dispassion to what is not real); the six qualities of quietude of mind ...