{"id":292735,"date":"2019-01-29T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=292735"},"modified":"2019-01-29T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T20:00:12","slug":"we-almost-didnt-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/we-almost-didnt-have-it\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We almost didn\u2019t have it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_292736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-292736\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Catholic-pix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-292736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Ralph DLG Torres signs the Catholic School week proclamation at the Mt. Carmel Cathedral Friday as Bishop Ryan Jimenez looks on. (Erwin Encinares)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 2019 Catholic School Week officially started last Sunday despite the recent Super Typhoon Yutu that ravaged Saipan and Tinian as Gov. Ralph DLG Torres announced in a proclamation over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe almost didn\u2019t have it,\u201d said Mt. Carmel School president Galvin Deleon Guerrero in a short speech before Torres signed the proclamation at the Mt. Carmel Cathedral Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were a lot of questions and concerns whether we would continue [Catholic School Week],\u201d he said, adding that after discussions, the committee named after Catholic School Week decided to push through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026We haven\u2019t lost heart of what Catholic School Week is,\u201d Deleon Guerrero further noted, adding that the destruction of Super Typhoon Yutu forced them to \u201cscale back on festivities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Torres in an interview noted that with a majority of residents on Saipan being Catholic, the proclamation in promotion of the religion is important to the CNMI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026The most important thing in our lives is\u2026the love of God\u2014everywhere we go, it is with us,\u201d Torres said in a brief message. \u201c\u2026Whether if you are in first grade, graduating high school, or even travelling abroad, God is with you,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Torres told the MCS students who were attending the proclamation signing ceremony that it should be included in their daily lives as a priority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026You\u2019ll need Him in your life no matter what occupation you have, no matter where you are, no matter what you are doing in life, you need God right next to you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The proclamation recognized the several Catholic schools in the CNMI, including the Sister Remedios Early Childhood Development Center, Mt. Carmel School, and Rota\u2019s Eskuelan San Francisco de Borja for \u201ctraining and producing students strongly dedicated to their faith, values, families, and communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 Catholic School Week officially started last Sunday despite the recent Super Typhoon Yutu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":292736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}