XXXIV OSINO I UTTIMU NA DAMENGGU GI SAKKAN KRISTO RAI

Posted by - November 26, 2017

FINE’NA NA TINAITAI                                                                  Ez 34, 11-12. 15-17 Un tinaitai ginin i Lepblun i Prufeta as Ezekiel Taiguini ilek-ña i Saina i Yi’us: Guåhu mismu bai Hu pulan yan bai asisti i ga’-hu kinilu. Taimanu ha’ i pastot ni ha asisisti i ga’-ña kinilu yanggin finakcha’i gui’ gi halum i chinalapun kinilu, taiguennåo ha’ para

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San Roque Parish Youth Ministry officers and members together with their advisers and Pastor, Fr. Allan Cabatian, OAR after the successful Youth Night last November 11, 2017.

San Roque Youth Night Got Great Turnout

Posted by - November 19, 2017

On Saturday, November 11, the newly commissioned San Roque Parish Youth Ministry (SRPYM) held its first event: a youth acquaintance and worship night. The theme, “Where You Belong,” gathered over 100 participants for a night filled with team-building games and songs of reflection and worship led by the SRPYM Youth Band and Dance Group. Attendees

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ABOVE: Mount Carmel School Sophomores work on their ornaments for the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. LEFT: Mount Carmel School Sophomores created this ornament that includes the CNMI flag and a miniature latte stone for the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. (Photo taken by Justin Ocampo and Angelo Manese.)

Mount Carmel School students hand craft ornaments for the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C.

Posted by - November 19, 2017

ORNAMENTS by Mount Carmel School’s student artists will dazzle President’s Park (White house) in Washington, D.C. as part of the 95th annual National Christmas Tree Lighting display. The school’s Sophomore arts and Crafts students, under the direction of May Ling Colombo, created a variety of ornaments inspired by local interests, landmarks and icons of the

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DIOCESAN PASTORAL PLANNING PRIORITY MINISTRIES (DRAFT)
YOUTH / MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE

Posted by - November 19, 2017

YOUTH Goal Statement # 1 To establish the Diocesan Youth Ministry Office in our Diocese of Chalan Kanoa Objectives 1.1 To identify and employ a Diocesan Youth Ministry Director for the Diocese by end of January 2018. 2.1 To recruit at least one or two young people to serve on the Diocesan Youth Commission (DYC)

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World day of the Poor 2017“Love cannot go unanswered”

Posted by - November 19, 2017

Today November 19th 2017, has been chosen by our Holy Father, Pope Francis, as the first World Day of the Poor. The theme “Love not in word but in deeds,” is taken from the epistle of 1 John 3:18. The Pope says that he conceived of the idea of a day for the Poor at

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XXXIII DAMENGGU GI UTDINÅRIU NA TIEMPU A

Posted by - November 19, 2017

FINE’NA NA TINAITAI Prv 31, 10-13. 19-20. 30-31   Un Tinaitai Ginin I Lepblun Sinan- Gan Siha Yanggin mañodda’ i taotåo måolik na asagua, baliña ennåo ki i petlas siha. I asaguå-ña låhi ha popo’lu i inanguk- kon-ña giya guiya, ya ni ngai’an nai u popbli.
Mientras ki låla’la’ i palåo’an, ha chocho’gui i manmåolik, åhi’

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Moral Decision Making and Legislators

Posted by - November 19, 2017

When the United States was a young nation there was a good deal of prejudice against Catholics.  Much of this prejudice was a holdover from the religious conflicts of Europe that had afflicted that part of the world for centuries. One concern was that the Vatican would control American policy if Catholics had a strong

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A priest take pictures with a tablet as Pope Francis celebrates Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this July 7, 2013, file photo. The pope, at his Nov. 8 general audience, said it's "an awful thing" for people to take cellphone photos at Mass. (CNS photo/Tony Gentile, Reuters)

Stop taking smartphone snapshots during Mass, pope says

Posted by - November 11, 2017

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Mass is not a show, but a beautiful, transformative encounter with the true loving presence of Christ, Pope Francis said. That is why people need to focus their hearts on God, not focus their smartphones for pictures during Mass, he said. When the priest celebrating Mass says, “Let us lift

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Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, speaks at the Vatican June 13 about the theme of the first World Day of the Poor, to be celebrated Nov. 19. He said Pope Francis envisioned the day as a way for the whole church to reflect on the Gospel meaning of poverty. (CNS photo/Robert Duncan)

Poverty requires action, not empty words, pope says

Posted by - November 11, 2017

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — People cannot sit back and be indifferent or unresponsive to growing poverty in the world as a privileged minority accumulates “ostentatious wealth,” Pope Francis said. “God created the heavens and the earth for all; yet sadly some have erected barriers, walls and fences, betraying the original gift meant for all humanity,

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St. Frances Cabrini, the missionary to Italian immigrants in the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s, "teaches us the path to handling the epochal phenomenon of migration by joining charity and justice," Pope Francis said. The nun, who died Dec. 22, 1917, in Chicago, is depicted in a stained-glass window at the saint's shrine chapel in New York City. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

St. Frances Cabrini is modern model for handling migration, pope says

Posted by - November 11, 2017

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — St. Frances Cabrini, the missionary to Italian immigrants in the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s, “teaches us the path to handling the epochal phenomenon of migration by joining charity and justice,” Pope Francis said. The nun, who died Dec. 22, 1917, in Chicago, “understood that modernity would

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