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Day: January 21, 2023

WHEN A WEEK IS ALL YOU HAVE –…

Thoughts + HomilyJune 21, 2025

If you knew you had just one week to live, what would you do? Most of us have faced that question at some point—maybe in a group icebreaker, a job interview, or on a college…

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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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