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The road and the rainbow
The week before Ash Wednesday, I was driving home from San Diego when raindrops began to splash against my windshield.
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.
A word to our readers ....
In light of the coronavirus pandemic, and the many ways it is impacting life as we all have known it, the standard content that would have been published in this April issue of The Monitor Magazine is being set aside.
The dispelling of an illusion
We don’t much like the word disillusionment. Normally we think of it as a negative and not as something that does us a favor.
Choose what matters
It is "time to choose what matters and what passes away," Pope Francis told us March 27 when he spoke from the Vatican.
The spiritual benefits of technology in a time of crisis
"Gather 'round the TV, kids, it's time to pray." Those are words I never thought I would utter as a Catholic media studies professor ...
Love lives in the sacred place called home
So, here we are. Stuck at home. For many, the situation is challenging, frustrating and claustrophobic.
In life or death, we are safe in the hands of God
For me, April has always been the herald of newness, recalling memories of childhood Easters ...
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.
Recognizing when it’s time to embrace weakness
In college, Shannon K. Evans joined a charismatic evangelical community. She met her husband Eric through that church, and they moved to Indonesia to become missionaries, ...
Offer up your COVID-19 sacrifices for the forgotten
As we watched the COVID-19 pandemic multiply throughout the country, I saw my Facebook account explode ...
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.
Love in the time of Covid-19
In 1985, Nobel Prize winning author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, published a novel entitled, “Love in the Time of Cholera.”
Keeping the balance between health and faith
The COVID-19 ("coronavirus disease 2019") situation began to unfold just as I was diagnosed with a significant flare of one of my autoimmune conditions ...
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.’”
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