by Fr. Jim Chern
"Do not let your hearts be troubled." Those words of Jesus, opening today's Gospel, for many people, are precisely that, troubling. When you're sharing your bad news; when you're weighed down with fear and anxiety; …
One of many things that changed during the COVID-19 pandemic is our vocabulary. There are things that, previously, were not a part of our everyday language or conversations, like the word "essential:" essential services, essential…
How was your Lent? It seems like a random question on this Fourth Sunday of Easter. It's hard to believe that we gathered together on Ash Wednesday over two months ago, and now we're halfway…
What are you afraid of? One of my greatest fears has been traveling by airplane. Until my senior year of college, I had only been on a plane once when I was in Kindergarten, which…
How do you see yourself? That’s always been a question that people have at some point in their lives had to focus on. Or perhaps more accurately it’s a question multiple times in their lives…
What do you want for Easter? That’s never quite caught on as it has for Christmas, has it? You rarely hear people freaking out over not getting their Easter shopping done. I don’t remember the…
The cross is by far the most complex, complicated, and confusing of signs that humanity has ever encountered. Most religious traditions describe a sense of the might, the power, the dominion of the divine over…
1,000 days. He couldn’t believe it. That it actually had been 1,000 days. When he had started he didn’t think there was any way he could truly change his attitudes, his behaviors, and his perceptions…
“Not as man sees does God see because man sees the appearance but the Lord looks into the heart.” Those words from the Old Testament, book of Samuel that we heard proclaimed in the first…
Have you ever forgotten to eat? It’s a strange question - how can you forget to eat? Recently a bride and groom shared how that happened to them. After all the catering places they had…