We have just finished celebrating Mother’s Day and for many of us, it is mothers who most embody loving care and gentle nurturing. In the Bible, God is often referred to as a mother so that we understand the nature and depth of the divine love for each of us. In the twentieth century, there
Mango is in season nowadays here in Guam as you see mango trees especially in the south bedecked with fruits ready for picking, in fact there was mango festival there. To bear fruit among other things means to be productive from what you’re engaged in, to deliver good results from your task, make good of
Last April 21, Fr. Anthony led the Easter El Shaddai service. He started his sermon by greeting the audience, “Happy Easter”.Fr. Anthony said that Easter is the mother of all feasts and the anchor of the Catholic faith. Easter renders complete the mystery of man’s salvation and redemption. It is the day in which Jesus
The recent college admissions scandal offers an example. A con-man convinced a number of wealthy couples to pay large sums of money to ensure that their spoiled and underqualified children would be accepted into some of the best universities in the country. In the process the college applications were falsified, arrangements were made to cheat
FINE’NA NA TINAITAI Acts 14, 21-27 Un tinaitai ginin i Bidan i ManApostulis Dispues di munhåyan mapruklåma i Maolik na Nutisia giya Derbe ya manhålum meggai na mandisipulu, marastreha i pinekkat-ñiha tåtti fine’na para Lystra yan Iconium, ya dispues nai manhånåo para Antioch. Manma’asigura i disipulun-ñiha ginin i finu’-ñiha yan maninabiba siha na u
‘One of the big problems people have today, including so many young people, is that they have lost their ability to dream.’ Pope Francis had a clear message for young people on May 7, 2019: “One can never dream too much.” His remarks came in a talk during an ecumenical meeting with young people at
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — God never tricks, traps or tempts his children to sin or commit evil, Pope Francis said. God is with his people every step of the way — during times of joy and sadness, triumph and tribulation — and he always helps lead people away from the devil and his temptations, the
SOFIA, Bulgaria (CNS) — God is love, but too many Christians live their faith in a way that undermines any attempt to communicate that essential fact to others, Pope Francis said. Celebrating a late afternoon Mass May 5 in Sofia’s Battenberg Square, the pope wore over his chasuble a gold-embroidered, Byzantine-style stole given to him
ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM NORTH MACEDONIA (CNS) — The commission Pope Francis appointed to study the history and identity of women deacons did not reach a unanimous conclusion about whether deaconesses in the early church were “ordained” or formally “blessed,” the pope said. “What is fundamental is that there was no certainty that there
SKOPJE, North Macedonia (CNS) — Pope Francis went to the tiny Balkan nation of North Macedonia to pay tribute to a tiny saint who accomplished big things: St. Teresa of Kolkata. Mother Teresa was born Agnes Ganxhe Bojaxhiu to Albanian parents in Skopje Aug. 26, 1910, so after paying the obligatory formal visit to North
