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Day: September 4, 2017

SHOCK AND AWE

Thoughts + HomilyJanuary 4, 2025

Words can often dance with different meanings depending on how we say them. Take the phrase "Wait till your father gets home." Growing up, those words from Mom could foretell either impending doom or upcoming…

BELIEVING OR USING GOD?

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"Here comes trouble."  It's not exactly something a priest wants to hear when arriving somewhere.  Even here in Jersey, where sarcasm is so common and implies what's being said is just a joke.  But that…

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About

Fr. Jim Chern has been a priest in the Archdiocese of Newark since 1999.

He graduated with his master’s in theology from Seton Hall University. After his graduation he was assigned to Our Lady of Lourdes parish where he served as Parochial Vicar for 7 years.

In 2007 he was named director of the Newman Catholic Center at Montclair State University where he still serves.

In 2018 Fr. Jim was additionally named Archdiocesan Director of Campus Ministry by Cardinal Joseph Tobin.

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