Despite fears about rain and a few sprinkles, the sun came out in full force last Friday just in time for Mount Carmel School’s annual celebration of Cultural Diversity Day. As part of the festivities, MCS students celebrated over a dozen cultures with a parade, cultural dances, and performances. The celebration featured the following grade
The topic delves into a deeper meaning on understanding of the nature of the human person according to St. John Paul II and the Second Vatican Council. This will be held tomorrow, October 9, 2017 at San Antonio Parish Social Hall at 9:00 AM- 12noon. The office of Religious Education did not go far to
Every parish, every October, (the month dedicated to the Holy Rosary) in the past few years, the faithful of the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa led by the Nanan Kilisyano would observe the Public Square Rosary Rally which is a nationwide effort of Our Lady of Fatima devotees who are dedicated in praying the Holy Rosary
The first ever cardinal from Tonga will preside the CCD Mass of the Holy Spirit for the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa on Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 5 PM at Mt. Carmel Cathedral. His Eminence Cardinal Soane Patita Paini Mafi, Bishop of Tonga is visiting Saipan for the first time to lead Bishop Ryan and the
The new school year for CCD kicks-off this weekend in all the parishes around the diocese. Sr. Nina Caccam, SJBP, who is the director of the Office of Religious Education is expecting an increase of enrollment once again following the trend and statistics in the past few years. Last year’s CCD enrollment was 976 students
RECENTLY, Mount Carmel School faculty, staff, and administrators participated in a spiritual retreat at the Maturana House of Prayer in Navy Hill. Held every year, the retreat gives the school’s employees an opportunity to reflect on their vocation and to cultivate deeper connections with each other and their school. The retreat was spearheaded by the
By Edward C. Maratita, Jr. On September 16, early morning before the sun rises was a perfect cool and gloomy day for a healthy activity. Students and parents from Eskuelan San Francisco de Borja run and walked from Tatachok Beach Pavilion to the school campus as part of their fundraiser for Catholic Education. The 3rd
By Sr. Nina Caccam, SJBP As the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa celebrates the Catechetical Sunday with the theme “Living as Missionary Disciples,” Coordinators and Assistant Coordinators of the CCD Program of the Diocese were commissioned last Sunday, September 17 at 9:00 AM at Mt. Carmel Cathedral. They were called forth and designated to a particular
By: Edward C. Maratita, Jr. “God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world, peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the earth, Amen!”- Pope Benedict XVI. On September 8, students from Eskuelan San Francisco de Borja joined the Mayor of Rota, Jerry Tan of
The whole project began in May 2013. An invitation was sent to one hundred members of all the parishes in Saipan and Rota and Tinian to attend a presentation on Lay Ministry Training Program for the Diocese at The Fiesta Hotel. That was the beginning of a five year Program designed to “equip” men and
