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Father Koch: The Lord sets up oases in the midst of a hostile world

On Dec. 20, 2015, Salah Farah was in a bus heading for Mandera, a town in northern Kenya.
Father Koch: Jesus teaches his disciples that no secret knowledge is needed

As we return to Ordinary Time, we pick-up the context of an on-going sermon that Jesus is preaching to his disciples.
Father Koch: Christ Is truly present with us

Over the past three months, Catholics throughout the world were largely deprived of the privilege of sharing in the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.
Father Koch: To understand the Trinity is to encounter the Triune God

For many of us, no dogma of the faith is more challenging to explain to a non-believer than is the...
Father Koch: Pentecost calls the Church to martyrdom

Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples, was a moment of complete transformation not for them only but for the entire world.
Father Koch: The Ascension of Jesus calls the Church to mission

While here in the Diocese of Trenton we are unaccustomed to celebrating the Solemnity of the Ascension on a Sunday, it is fairly normative throughout much of the country and even the world.
Father Koch: Love is a radical Commandment

Jesus places following him and obeying his Commandments within the context of love.
Father Koch: Jesus shows us the face of God

During this Easter Season, the Lord continues to speak words of comfort and consolation to his disciples and also to us.
Father Koch: Jesus alone is the Good Shepherd

Throughout history, the Church has endured some very turbulent times.
Father Koch: We must walk with Jesus to Emmaus if we expect to encounter him in the Eucharist

We can wonder how it is that two of Jesus’ disciples managed to walk with him for several miles from Jerusalem to Emmaus and not recognize him.
What to do on Divine Mercy Sunday?

Are you discouraged that you will not be able to receive the special graces of Divine Mercy Sunday promised directly by our Lord through St. Faustina in the 1930s? Don’t be.
Father Koch: The Body of Christ bares the wounds of the Crucifixion

Why does the resurrected Jesus, triumphant in all his glory, still bear in his Body the marks of the wounds of the Crucifixion?
Longing for Eucharist during Lent, Easter season an invitation to trust

In the midst of isolation when we are suffering … let us once again listen to the proclamation that saves us: He is risen and is living by our side.”
Faithful called to enter into spiritual communion

Though public Holy Week and Easter celebrations look different this year, the faithful are being urged to remember “that the underlying mysteries of our faith in the Lord’s Passion, Death and Resurrection have not changed.”
Father Koch: Jesus makes himself known in the emptiness to those who can see him

For many people it can be very difficult to find hope. We can get caught up in our own darkness, suffering, challenges and difficulties that a light at the end of the tunnel feels more like an on-coming train than a hope to chase after.
Question Corner: Funeral Mass if no burial?

I have a friend whose father-in-law died recently. The man wanted to be cremated. The family called the Church, and the pastor asked where the burial plot was located. When they said that they didn't have one, they were informed that there would not be a funeral Mass. So my question is this:
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: 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.
Almsgiving: An overshadowed Lenten pillar has something to say

When it comes to the three pillars of Lent, almsgiving is a little bit like the middle child, not always getting the attention that prayer and fasting do.
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.

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