by Fr. Jim Chern
“Father can you pray for me?” Ask any priest and that’s almost as common a greeting as “How are you?” While often times people will ask for those prayers because of a certain thing that…
A writer in The Epoch Times last week had an interesting reflection on the Old Testament story of Lot’s wife turning to a pillar of salt. You might remember the story from the book of…
For 6 weeks we’ve been celebrating Easter, a season focusing on this singularly important event of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. As we’re nearing the end of this season with today’s celebration of…
After Saint Mother Teresa had died back in 1997, one of her requests were that her private letters to spiritual directors along with personal writings (journals, diaries) would be destroyed. Bizarrely, that was ignored. It’s…
In his new book entitled Jesus the way, the truth and the life - the author, Marcellino D’Ambrosio explained what changed his motivation for life from looking to pursue a life as a rock musician…
“Grief has filled your hearts” - Jesus is acknowledging the “elephant in the room” that none of the others can even bring themselves to articulate. This Last Supper has been filled with a lot…
If you’ve ever watched any television, you’ve probably seen drug commercials that promise to do everything from lowering your cholesterol, help you grow back your hair, deal with diabetes – to countless other things. They…
A little over a week ago marked the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. Because of the viral pandemic, that milestone didn’t receive the attention that it normally would have.…
Until you don’t reciprocate - Except those who hurt me - Unless you betray me We don’t hear any of those exceptions to the call of Jesus in this Gospel with what is called the…
There’s probably no other Gospel passage that impacted me more deeply in my life than this one we just heard [you can read it here]. I can still picture the day, being a sophomore in…