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Day: April 4, 2020

GOODBYE WORRY

Thoughts + HomilyMarch 4, 2023

For Ash Wednesday this year our campus ministry at Montclair State University gave out books to everyone who attended Mass.  We’ve been getting something like this each year.  A small what they call devotional that…

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A few weeks ago, a story on the front page of an international newspaper seemed out of place. Amidst the, sadly usual headlines, discussing worries over the economy; the horror of the war in Ukraine;…

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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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