by Fr. Jim Chern
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…
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…
Not too long ago, a childhood friend from Virginia shared a story about his local school district. The headline read “After-school Satan Club to hold first meeting at a primary school.” Some months ago the…
For those, like me, who’s been long waiting the newest season of Ted Lasso (which, if you haven’t heard, here’s an Ash Wednesday bonus gift for you - it’s coming March 15) - it seemed…
My first experience with the Jewish kosher laws must have been in middle school. My family had taken a trip that our high school had sponsored to the Catskills for a ski weekend. The resort…
It is hard to believe that the film Les Miserables was released 11 years ago. I never saw the film but had seen the original Broadway production that it was based on I think twice…
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;…