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Day: April 2, 2022

FAITH & FREEDOM

Thoughts + HomilyNovember 2, 2024

I always have to be cautious when I say that there were many blessings that emerged from the COVID pandemic.  It was such an incredibly challenging time for all of us, and the effects still…

GOD’S JEALOUSY

Thoughts + HomilyMarch 2, 2024

A priest friend shared in one of his homilies how a television show that he used to watch pretty regularly, laugh at, and dismiss as just kind of this harmless thing, years later, now having…

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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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