Happy Easter, everyone! Finally, after all the Holy Week busyness—the processions, prayer vigils, late nights and early mornings—it is at last Easter Sunday. Better yet, the Church did not reserve only a single day to celebrate, but EIGHT weeks! Easter Sunday begins an entire Easter season. Every year, in preparation for Easter, our island communities
FINE’NA NA TINAITAI Acts 10, 34a. 37-43 Un tinaitai ginin i Bidan i ManApostulis Ha tutuhun kumuentusi siha si Pedro i MamPagånu ni esti siha na palåbra: “Gi hinassok-ku na en tingu’ ha’ håfa masåsangan gi todu iya Hudeha put si Jesus i taotåo Nasaret, ni matutuhun giya Galileha put i båotismu ni ha setmunñaihun
Every now and then you will hear of someone having a “green thumb”. This doesn’t mean that their thumb is literally green but rather that they are exceptionally successful in caring for plants. My wife has a “green thumb”. Where ever we have lived, either in the CNMI or in Erie, Pauline has planted a
WEDNESDAY MARCH 28, 2018 CHRISM MASS – 7:00 p.m. Mt. Carmel Cathedral HUEBES SANTO – MARCH 29, 2018 HOLY THURSDAY Konfesion (Confessions) Mt. Carmel Cathedral: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. San Vicente: 8:30 p.m. San Jose (Saipan): 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. San Jose (Tinian): 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. San Roque: 8:00 p.m. –
These last two weeks has been an intense moment of prayer, reflection and Sacramental Reconciliation for the faithful of the diocese as the Lenten Season winds down leading towards the Holy Week. Fr. Arthur Leger, SJ at the invitation of Bishop Ryan toured the islands of Saipan, Tinian and Rota giving Lenten reflection in different
His Excellency Ryan P. Jimenez, D.D. has once again begun his annual visit to the parishes on the occasion of their parish fiestas. Last Sunday, he presided the Fiesta Mass of Santa Soledad in Kagman and the Fiesta celebration on the Solemnity of St. Joseph in Oleai on Monday. He emphasized the importance of these
By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Mar 16, 2018 / 06:13 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Friday the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announced the conclusion of a year-long trial against an archbishop in Guam, stating that he has been found guilty of some charges stemming from allegations of sexual abuse of minors and has
On Easter Saturday, April 7th, Bishop Ryan will ordain the following five men as permanent Deacons at Mt. Carmel Cathedral at 10:00 AM From Saint Jude Parish, Estanislao Roque Kogure Benavente; from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral-Parish, Jeffrey Melvin Tenorio Camacho; from Santa Soledad Parish, Rosiky Flores Camacho; from Santa Remedios Parish, Thomas Joseph
THIS PAST week, 39 students were inducted into Mount Carmel School’s Immaculate Conception Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) and Father Arnold Bendowski Chapter of the National Elementary Honor Society (NEHS). Bishop Ryan Jimenez, was on hand to help celebrate the special occasion. He also opened the induction ceremony with a prayer and
Can your children answer all of the questions of this quiz? Can you? Challenge yourselves this week and learn more about our Catholic traditions! 1. The procession with the palms took place when Je- sus entered the city of _____________, riding on a ___________ . 2. The easter _______________ is the period of three days
