Seniors learned how to make traditional Japanese food with Sensei Akemi Ishikawa (center) as part of Mount Carmel School’s annual Mini-Course Week.

Mount Carmel School Holds Annual Mini-Course Week

Posted by - April 28, 2019

Cooking. Painting. Stitching. These are just a few of the dozens of alternative courses that were taught this past week at Mount Carmel School as part of Mini-Course Week. In its 23rd year at the school, Mini-Course Week gives junior high and high school teachers and students a chance to take a break from traditional

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Sunday of Divine Mercy

Posted by - April 28, 2019

Today we celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday. This Feast Day was introduced into the Liturgical Year of the Church in order to draw people to contemplate, give thanks for and enter into the great mercy of God through the Resurrection of His Son, Jesus. During this day we are invited to consider… … that God showers

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A Ray of Mercy

Posted by - April 28, 2019

God’s Gift of Remedios Palacios Castro    In World War I Saipan was seized by Japan from Germany by October 1914.  Following that war, Saipan was placed under the Japanese by the League of Nations as part of the South Pacific Mandate.  From that time onward the Japanese developed the island and had thriving fishing

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Today is the Feast of the Divine Mercy

Posted by - April 28, 2019

In her Dairy no. 699, Sister Faustina wrote Jesus words regarding the Feast of the Divine Mercy; “My image is already in your soul. I desire that there be a Feast of Mercy. I want this image which you will paint with a brush, to be solemnly celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter; that

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Sharing our stories and importance of dialogue (Part 1)

Posted by - April 28, 2019

If you listen to the news or skim through the Internet you get a lot of information. The difficulty is that the information is in pieces. It is in shards that make little sense by themselves but you can take a bunch of those shards and arrange them into a pattern that makes sense. These

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II DAMENGGUN PÅSGUAN RESUREKSION pat DAMENGGUN YINI’USAN MINA’ÅSI’

Posted by - April 28, 2019

FINE’NA NA TINAITAI                                                                               Acts 5, 12-16  Un tinaitai ginin i Bidan i Manapostulis       Hafañe’lus: Ginin i kannai i manapostulis, meggai na siñåt yan manna’manman na cho’chu’ manmasusedi gi entalu’ i taotåo siha.  Manákumfotma na para u fanasudda’ gi Kahidan Solomon. Ni un tåotåo umatotga sumåonåo gi entalu’-ñiha, maskiseha manmagóf rispéta siha ni taotåo.

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God’s timing is always perfect. Bastat maghintay ka lamang. (Just you wait.)

Posted by - April 21, 2019

There are times in our life that we say God is not listening to my prayer. Sometimes we are in a depressed situation or we are in trouble. We think to ourselves that God does not care about us. But brothers and sister, always believe that God’s timing is always perfect.God is never late. He

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Pope Francis greets people during an audience with students and staff from Ennio Quirino Visconti Lyceum-Gymnasium, a school in Rome, at the Vatican April 13, 2019. The pope encouraged high school students to break their phone addiction and spend more time on real communication and moments of personal reflection. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope urges students to fight their addiction to phones

Posted by - April 21, 2019

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis told high school students to break their phone addiction and spend more time on real communication with others and in moments of quiet, personal reflection. Young people need to learn about “healthy introspection” so they can listen to their conscience and be able to distinguish it “from the voices

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Flames and smoke billow from the Notre Dame Cathedral after a fire broke out in Paris April 15, 2019. Officials said the cause was not clear, but that the fire could be linked to renovation work. (CNS photo/Benoit Tessier, Reuters)

Blaze erupts at Paris’ iconic Notre Dame Cathedral; cause unknown

Posted by - April 21, 2019

PARIS (CNS) — A major blaze engulfed the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral April 15, sending pillars of flame and billowing smoke over the center of the French capital. The fire erupted about 6:30 p.m. local time. Authorities said the cause was not certain, but that it could be linked to renovation work that the cathedral

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