By Rose Gamier Yes, you read it right: Parade of Saints. Imagine the statues or pictures of our patrons and beloved saints come to “life” and “roam” around the church grounds…well, in broad daylight. Veering away from the more secular and commercialized Halloween celebration, San Roque parishioners witnessed a ”holier” atmosphere with the presence of
Gospel Reflection for the Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time by Rev. Fr. Jason Granado, Parishes of Our Lady of Mount Carmel & San Jose-Oleai.
FINE’NA NA TINAITAI Wis 11, 22-12, 2 Un tinaitai ginin i Lepblun Tinemtum Gi me’nan i Saina, kalang un pongpung potbus interu i tanu’ ni muna’å’atlibis i pesadot patsino kalang i chi’up i chatangmak ni tumutunuk gi tanu’. Låo Hågu gai ma’asi’ nu hami, sa’ todu Un na’siña; ya Un bibira i matå-mu ginin
We have been hearing parents and students of the CCD asking the following questions: “When are we going to receive the bread?”, “We will register our children for CCD. When is the graduation?” Many of the parents and students may not be aware of this particular sacrament that they are preparing themselves into. The Eucharist
The story of Zacchaeus relates to us in certain ways. He is a chief tax collector and wealthy, seeking to see Jesus passing by Jericho, but could not see him because of his short stature, so he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree in order to see him. When Jesus reached the place, he
Not long-ago Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey gave a speech in which he said that to be silent in the face of evil is to be complicit with that evil. He was challenging his audience to oppose evil where they encounter it, rather than to ignore it and hopes it goes away. If we
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — After listening to indigenous people and church leaders at the Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, the Catholic Church cannot remain indifferent to the suffering of the region’s people, Pope Francis said. “The cry of the poor, together with that of the earth, came to us from the Amazon,” the pope
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Christians can become stagnant if they do not have the crashing waves of hope moving in their lives, Pope Francis said. “Hope is this living in tension, always; knowing that we cannot make a nest here: the life of the Christian is ‘in a forward-moving tension.’ If a Christian loses this
Christianity is disappearing from towns and cities in parts of the Middle East, warns a new report from the papal foundation Aid to the Church in Need. It also said that persecution of Christians “has worsened the most” in South and East Asia. Urgent action by the international community is needed to prevent more Christians
FLORENCE, S.C. (CNS) — Former Vice President Joe Biden attended the 9 a.m. Mass at St. Anthony Church Oct. 27 and when he presented himself to receive the Eucharist was refused by the pastor. “Sadly, this past Sunday, I had to refuse holy Communion to former Vice President Joe Biden,” Father Robert Morey wrote in
