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The gift of St. Valentine’s Day
Many people associate this month with great happiness and joy due to the Feast of St. Valentine on Feb. 14.
What does it mean to be big-hearted, magnanimous?
Once during a baseball game in high school an umpire made very unfair call against our team.
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.
What world are we creating with our words?
Words have a unique power to heal and to comfort, to inspire and to teach. They also serve to damage, to plant seeds of evil and incite to hatred.
Elders shape the future
During February my thoughts turn to two of my favorite biblical figures, Simeon and Anna.
Talking about God and grief with children
February is a tough month for our family, bringing the anniversaries of our twins' deaths.
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.
Light and darkness
The statues of the saints seemed to come to life, lit only by candles. It is moments like these that remind me of the many ways technology reshapes not just our physical surroundings, but our psychological experience as well.
These days of Ordinary Time
How ordinary is "Ordinary Time"? As it turns out, not very, if you think of ordinary as ho-hum and routine
Opening doors to love
As Valentine's Day approaches, so too does more awareness of love and how we express it to the diverse people in our lives.
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.
Forgotten should never be anyone’s last memory
My mother was not one to talk much about God or faith but she had a deep affection for her Syrian Orthodox Church ...
The spirituality of starting again
I find the pressure to make New Year's resolutions a bit oppressive.
Exercising my right to choose
I was cleaning the kitchen, the TV on in the background, the faces of glitz and glam celebrities flashing across the screen, the sounds of applause filling the room as the Golden Globes played.
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