Faith, formation, and practical service.
Giuseppe Njualem—also known as Joseph Njualem—is a Catholic seminarian serving the Diocese of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. His work brings together seminary formation, parish experience, and coding skills developed before he entered seminary.
For Giuseppe, technology is most useful when it quietly removes avoidable work without pretending to replace the person, vocation, or judgment at the center of it. That conviction shapes both Catholic Funeral Program and HomilyWriterAI.
From coding to Catholic tools
During seminary studies and parish practice in Canada, Giuseppe was asked to prepare Sunday homilies for his pastor. The assignment made visible how much careful preparation can demand: time with Scripture, biblical commentary, magisterial documents, the Church Fathers, prayer, and the pastoral realities of a particular community.
Because he had coding experience before seminary, he began exploring whether technology could make the research and organizing work more manageable while leaving the essential prayer, discernment, and human voice where they belong. That work became HomilyWriterAI, a tool for Catholic homily preparation.
Why Catholic Funeral Program
Giuseppe’s involvement in Catholic funeral preparations revealed a different but equally human challenge. Families are asked to gather names, photographs, an obituary, readings, music, ministers, and parish questions in a very short time—while grieving and caring for one another.
He built Catholic Funeral Program to give those moving pieces one calm, understandable home. The family can contribute memories and a portrait, the music director can propose music for the appropriate liturgical moments, the priest can review readings and the order of celebration, and the organizer can bring the approved pieces together in one dignified booklet.
“The goal is not to make a funeral impersonal. It is to remove avoidable stress so there is more room for prayer, remembrance, family, and pastoral care.”