II DAMENGGUN KUARESMA

Posted by - March 9, 2017

FINE’NA NA TINAITAI gn 12, 1-4a Un tinaitai ginin i Lepblun Genesis Ilek-ña i Saina as Abram: “Huyung ya un hånåo ginin i tanu’ i mamparentes-mu yan ginin i gima’ tatå-mu para guatu gi un tånu’ ni para bai Hu fa’nu’i håo. Bai Hu na’huyung ginin hagu un dångkulu na nasion, ya bai Hu bendisi

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Fast, Pray, Give — Karidat Version

Posted by - March 9, 2017

Fast: -Skip a meal, in solidarity with the hungry -Refrain from “extras” and drop the extra dollars or pennies into the Sunday collection baskets -Forgo “screen time.” Offer it up for people in prison who are often bored -Skip a favorite activity or hobby in honor of those who have restricted personal freedom -Fast from

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Newly inducted members of Mount Carmel School’s Sacred Heart Chapter of the National Honor Society gather with Bishop Ryan Jimenez (front, second from right), keynote speaker, Dr. Amanda Borja Hughes (front, far left), and school officials.

16 Students Inducted Into MCS National Honor Society

Posted by - March 9, 2017

16 HIGH SCHOOL students were inducted into Mount Carmel School’s Sacred Heart Chapter of the National Honor Society in a ceremony held this past week at Mount Carmel Cathedral. The inductees were selected by a faculty council that reviewed applications from Sophomores and upper-classmen who had maintained a grade point average of 3.0 and had

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Reflection on Evil and Sin Part 2

Posted by - March 9, 2017

Another understanding encountered in the Talmud draws on two images.   The first is the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; and the second is the serpent who tricked Eve and Adam into eating of the fruit of the Tree. Adam and Eve are forbidden to eat the fruit of the tree. As the

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A SAINT FOR OUR ISLANDS—Journey to Sainthood

Posted by - March 9, 2017

When people in our islands greeted Mother Margarita as she came ashore in 1928, little did they know she was a saint in the making. What does it take to be a saint? What set her on this journey to sainthood? Mother Margarita’s journey begins with the desire to serve God; a desire that she

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Key To Fasting

Posted by - March 6, 2017

In my experience, many people have mixed feelings and thoughts regarding fasting during Lent. I know many who fast simply as a way to lose weight. Lent becomes a diet season to shed 10-15 extra pounds. A time to sacrifice all the “good stuff” and reap the health rewards. On the other hand, I do

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Cardinal Jozef Tomko places ashes on the head of Pope Francis during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome March 1. (CNS photo)

Pope: Lent breathes life into world asphyxiated by sin

Posted by - March 3, 2017

ROME (CNS) — Lent is a time to receive God’s breath of life, a breath that saves humanity from suffocating under the weight of selfishness, indifference and piety devoid of sincerity, Pope Francis said. “Lent is the time to say no to the asphyxia born of relationships that exclude, that try to find God while

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Pope Francis embraces a boy during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican March 1. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Lent is time to relive exodus from slavery to freedom, pope says

Posted by - March 3, 2017

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Like the people of Israel freed from the bondage of slavery, Christians are called to experience the path toward hope and new life during the Lenten season, Pope Francis said. Through his passion, death and resurrection, Jesus “has opened up for us a way that leads to a full, eternal and

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Filipino nuns wearing hats with messages against human rights violations join a Feb. 25 demonstration to mark the 31st anniversary of the People Power revolution in Manila. The nonviolent revolution led to the toppling of President Ferdinand Marcos and the restoration of the country's democracy. (CNS photo/Mark R. Cristino, EPA)

Philippine archbishop recalls deceased Cardinal Sin in time of upheaval

Posted by - March 3, 2017

MANILA, Philippines (CNS) — Expressing concern about thousands of deaths in the nation’s so-called “war on drugs,” the president of the Philippine bishops’ conference has sought courage from a deceased cardinal whose influence helped overthrow a dictator in the mid-1980s. Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan wrote a public letter to Cardinal Jaime Sin Feb. 25,

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A homeless man asks for money during blizzard-like conditions Feb. 9 in in Boston. People who don't give money to the homeless because they think it will be spent on alcohol and not food should ask themselves what guilty pleasures they are secretly spending money on, Pope Francis said. (CNS photo/Brian Snyder, Reuters)

Don’t worry how it’s spent, always give homeless a handout, pope says

Posted by - March 3, 2017

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — People who don’t give money to the homeless because they think it will be spent on alcohol and not food should ask themselves what guilty pleasures they are secretly spending money on, Pope Francis said. “There are many excuses” to justify why one doesn’t lend a hand when asked by a

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