by Fr. Jim Chern
The Catholic Church only has two “feast” days dedicated to the Foster father of Jesus Christ, Saint Joseph. The primary one being March 19th, the day tradition believes he died - and today, May…
A favorite app on my phone has got to be Waze. The GPS device that helps navigate how to get from wherever you are to your destination has proven invaluable. It’s hard to imagine not having…
Coming from a family where I’m the third generation that was born and raised in the United States, we grew up with an appreciation, pride, gratitude for this nation. My Grandpa Jim Trippodi, (my name…
“Sir, give us this bread always.” You can hear the longing in those words as those words in today's Gospel were being proclaimed. It’s hard not to think that for countless numbers of Catholics around…
This one time I had gone to visit my mother while she was teaching 2nd grade, and her principal saw me come into the school and said “you’re just the priest I was looking for.”…
“God did not do that.” That was the startling and disappointing statement made by the Governor of the State of New York, Andrew Cuomo almost two weeks ago. He was speaking at his briefing on…
A few weeks ago, we had our first edition of “Quarantined Catholics” the weekly “talk show” that our FOCUS missionaries conceived and launched when the viral pandemic and shut downs first hit our campus. Normally…
From time to time, you’ll hear a theologian or a minister propose that in the Gospel we just heard, the miracle was really that everyone in the crowd shared what they had and found they…
“We must obey God rather than men.” Just hearing those words and speaking them today, my mind goes in dangerous directions. Is this the day Fr. Jim loses it (one can argue did I ever…
Employers often when they are interviewing someone for a job will pose a hypothetical question like “If you were on a desert island and could only bring three books with you which ones would they…