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Father Koch: We all share in the Passion of Jesus Christ

Palm Sunday, known also as Passion Sunday, is a time to reflect on the momentous events of Holy Week, the Paschal Mystery.
Father Koch: Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life

Lazarus is dead. Jesus was in Galilee, a distance from Bethany, when word comes to him that Lazarus is ill.
Father Koch: A blind man’s new-found sight points us to the restoring power of Baptism

"The man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’”
Father Koch: Water is the source of all life in this world and the next

Water is more than the origin of life, it is the principal make-up of life as we know it.
Father Koch: The Transfiguration stands as a juxtaposition of Salvation History

The disciples Peter, James and John accompany Jesus to the top of a Galilean mountain.
Father Koch: Temptation to sin often grows from the desire to sin itself

As we begin the Lenten Season, we are drawn to focus on our on-going need for conversion.
Father Koch: The exercise of freedom in charity is a new teaching from Jesus

As we continue to read through the Sermon on the Mount, we hear Jesus offering deeper insight into the fuller understanding of the Mosaic Law.
Father Koch: Jesus interprets, fulfills the Law for us

There are big picture people and there are small picture people.
Father Koch: A light hidden is no light at all

As last Sunday was the Solemnity of the Presentation of the Lord we omitted the Gospel for the Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time.
Father Koch: The Light of the World pierces the darkness of sin

The midpoint of winter, 40 days after Christmas, the traditional end of the Christmas Season, is celebrated by many cultures in various ways and is one of the highpoints of the Liturgical Year.
Father Koch: The disciples could respond to Jesus because they knew the Scriptures

The Gospel for this Sunday is the call of the first disciples. Jesus, as the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Old Testament, emerges from the desert proclaiming the Kingdom of Heaven.
Father Koch: John the Baptist is the prophet of the Eucharist

On this Second Sunday of Ordinary Time, the Gospel again draws us into liturgical language.
Father Koch: Through Baptism, we are called to intimacy with the Lord

While the Baptism of Jesus is unlike our own – though it prefigures our own Baptism – it is a necessary and natural consequence of the Incarnation.
Father Koch: Like the Magi, we seek the Lord in humble surroundings

The Magi coming from the East to give due homage and honor to the Messiah, the new-born King of the Jews, points us to the proper reverence due to God in our own life of faith.
Father Koch: The plight of the Holy Family is reflected in millions of families today

Joseph took his family and fled into Egypt to escape persecution at the hands of Herod.
Father Koch: The Church remains Christ present in the world

We live at a time when the world is rife with the cult of personality.
Father Koch: John’s furor upsets the haughty

Much of the political debate in our country centers around areas of justice.
Father Koch: Advent offers hope in the midst of uncertainty

As we begin a new Liturgical Year, we are struck with the clear apocalyptic message coming from Jesus.
Father Koch: We spend too much time focused on the wrong kingdom

As we close out the Liturgical Year, we celebrate the Solemnity of Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.
Father Koch: It’s all about eternal life

If you want to have an interesting conversation at a family gathering ask the question as about what heaven is like.
Father Koch: Like Zacchaeus, we cannot get stuck in a tree for very long

Our relationship with the Lord, although principally expressed and experienced in the context of a community, is still always uniquely personal.
Father Koch: We always are in need of God’s mercy

As a teacher, it didn’t take long to begin to see the intellectual and emotional processes of my students through their writing and classroom interaction.
Father Koch: Prayer must be constant and certain

Our Readings this weekend focus on the need to be consistent and constant in prayer.
Father Koch: We are called to offer thanksgiving to God every day

Upon arriving in the hospital room of a man who was dying, I met his wife and invited her to pray with me.
Father Koch: There is more to the life of faith than doing the very least

Judaism at the time of Jesus was focused on the observance of the Mosaic Law.

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