by Fr. Jim Chern
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…
Today the Church celebrates the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima. It was on this day back in 1917 that the Blessed Virgin Mary first appeared to three children in Portugal and continued to visit…
Today's Gospel started out so nice: Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you. And if you weren’t paying attention, swaying along with groovy thoughts (Sorry, if I just summoned this image…
In one of many funny scenes from The Office - the sitcom that revolves around a group of a staff of people working in a Paper supply company in Scranton, PA - Michael Scott, the…
During this time of viral pandemic, quarantine, stay at home orders - one of the things that has changed is our vocabulary. There’s a bunch of things that, previously, were not really a part of our…
One of the beautiful things about Catholic liturgy, with each of the different seasons, is how the scriptures come alive in a unique way. When we were in Holy Week just a little over a…
One word kind of jumps off the page in this Gospel passage : might. Jesus says: I came into the world as light so that everyone who believes in me might not remain in darkness.…
Are you the Christ or not? It seems straight forward enough of a question that the crowd is asking (in today's Gospel). We know very plainly that Jesus is the Christ... so much so that…
One of the greatest leaps forward in modern technology has been these voice recognition services. You can simply say Siri, or Alexa, or Google out and they can look stuff up for you, order things…
On Friday, one of our FOCUS missionaries here (recent college grads who dedicate a few years of their lives to serve their peers in order to grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ) had invited…