MAY DEVOTIONS

May Devotions to the Blessed Mother began locally in different places hundreds of years ago, and then spread all over the world.  May is spring time, the time of new life.  Mary is God's greatest flower, the highest of our human race.  Mary, above all, rejoices in the Risen Life of Her Son during this Easter Season (Paschaltide).  Our custom on Guam for hundreds of years is for little girls to dress as angels and throw flowers to our Lady's image.

The congregation prayed the Rosary and made the Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  We will do this every Sunday in May.

REGINA CAELI

THE CHAPEL AT EASTER TIME

COOKING FOR THE HOMELESS

Sean, William and Gavin

Kusinan Kamalen Karidat is a Catholic center that provides the homeless on Guam a hot meal for dinner every day.  Four young men who regularly attend the Traditional Latin Mass and who also happen to be candidates to the Capuchin Order, prepared today's meal for them.  God bless Gavin, William, Joe and Sean! 

A good number of our Traditional Mass community donated funds for the meal.  God reward you!  We can truly say this was a corporal act of mercy done by the Traditional Mass community.

Gavin, William and Joe

GOOD FRIDAY

ECCE HOMO

OUR YOUNG PEOPLE LOVE THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS!

CONFESSIONS ON GOOD FRIDAY / HOLY SATURDAY

Pope John Paul II hearing confessions

Many Catholics have heard that no sacraments at all are permitted during Good Friday and Holy Saturday.  The short answer to this comes from the 2002 English edition of the Sacramentary, based on the 2000 Latin Editio Typica Tertia, which, under the instructions for Good Friday, states :

"Hac et sequenti die, Ecclesia, ex antiquissima traditione, sacramenta, praeter Paenitentiae et Infirmorum Unctionis penitus non celebrat."

"Today and tomorrow, the Church, according to very ancient tradition, except for Penance and the Anointing of the Sick, does not celebrate at all the sacraments."

See also from the Congregation for Divine Worship, Protocol 690/03/L (April 9, 2003) stating that not only is it allowed but also LAUDABLE (praiseworthy) that confessions be heard on Good Friday and Holy Saturday, and mentions that the late Pope John Paul II regularly heard confessions at St. Peter's every Good Friday.