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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.’”

A Lenten response to COVID-19

After visiting Philadelphia's spring flower show, my daughter and her 5-year-old were returning home on the commuter train.

Our Christian calling and social distancing

The advent of the novel coronavirus has set into motion so many unprecedented actions and effects that it's hard to keep track or make sense of them.

A crisis that may be an opportunity

Never let a serious crisis go to waste,” said former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. 

The power of persistence

In the Gospel of Luke, Christ tells the story of a man awakened in the middle of the night by his friend.

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.

Lent as a time for embraces

Over time, certain passages of Scripture reach beyond the realm of the sacred to find a place in our culture’s lexicon of colloquial expressions.

Almsgiving: Lent’s overlooked discipline

Is there any question that almsgiving is the under-practiced, under-encouraged Lenten discipline when compared with prayer and fasting?

Lenten lessons in a munchkin meltdown

Lent is a good time for introspection, reflection and lessons that lead to change.

Inspiration is everywhere!

It was probably not more than a few hours after the last bus returned from the Diocesan Youth Conference ...


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