by Fr. Jim Chern
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…
In the over 6 weeks that we've been "locked down" (which is shocking to realize that it's been that long) there's been unprecedented suffering. People who are sick, who've lost loved ones, who've been unable…
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…