The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace will move its weekday Masses and confessions next door to the Kamiano Center from Sept. 23 to Dec. 1 while “phase one” of the interior renovation work takes place in the historic church. Daily Masses are at 6:30 a.m. and noon. Confessions are offered every Wednesday 11-11:30 a.m. […]
Archives for September 2013
An invitation: Friday evening conversations with the bishop
Bishop Larry Silva has invited a limited group of “Catholic professionals” to a Friday evening of “conversation, pupus and cocktails” Sept. 20 at St. Stephen Diocesan Center to discuss how faith and career intersect. Invitations went out to approximately 80 persons working the fields of medicine, law, politics, media and education. The evening will take […]
Manaolana | Makana’s helpful hints: Adiante Part III — Serve
Toward the end of his World Youth Day homily in Rio de Janeiro, Pope Francis said, “the life of Jesus is a life for others. It is a life of service.” He then quoted St. Paul, “I have made himself a slave to all, that I might win the more” (1Cor 9:19) to show us, […]
Viriditas: Sister Rose Miriam Schillinger, Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
‘Whatever God wants, is what I want’ Forty-three years ago when I was asked to go to Hawaii, I told my provincial superior: “No, I don’t want to go. I am a homebody and I love my home in Watervliet, New York.” She said that Hawaii really needed someone with a degree to teach social […]
Manaolana | Sidebar: Sept. 13, 2013
Quote “He found the presence of God everywhere, in all things. Nothing crushed him. His limitless charity is a model for the Year of Faith.” | Archbishop Ioan Robu of Bucharest on Monsignor Vladimir Ghika, who was beatified Aug. 31 in Romania’s capital. Ghika was 80 when he was tortured to death in 1954 by […]
Kona parish festival to raise money for new church
Multi-cultural food, keiki activities, live entertainment, a country store and silent auction are part of the family fun at the annual St. Michael the Archangel Feast Day Celebration, Sept. 28 and 29 in Kailua-Kona. The celebration begins with the 5 p.m. Saturday vigil Mass at the church tent at 74-574 Honokohau Street in the Honokohau […]
Kathleen T. Choi: In the big boat
I just read “Take This Bread” by Sara Miles (Ballantine Books, 2008). Miles describes herself as an atheist and “a lesbian, left-wing journalist.” She spent her younger years in restaurant work and covering revolutions in South America. Then one day she wandered into St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco. When the priest […]
Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Blanche Thiel served in Hawaii for 20 years
Maryknoll Sister Blanche M. Thiel, a chaplain, pastoral worker and dietary researcher who served 20 years in Hawaii, died Aug. 29 at a Maryknoll Sisters care home in Ossining, N.Y. She was 87 and a religious sister for 64 years. Sister Blanche came to Hawaii in 1971, serving first as a dietician and cook at […]
Photo: Award winner
Jayne Mondoy, second from left, holds the Conference Theme Award from the Diocesan Information Systems Conference. Mondoy, director of the diocesan Office of Religious Education, was honored in June for her department’s program that offers faith formation classes to catechists via Facebook. She is pictured with program facilitator Dallas Carter, Bishop Larry Silva, and diocesan […]
Photo: St. Anthony anniversary
Students and teachers festively celebrated the 85th anniversary of St. Anthony School in Kalihi with a morning showcase of art, a thanksgiving Mass and more, Sept. 6. Faculty member Cora Aczon, far left, stands with some of the school’s creative young artists, who proudly displayed their 85th anniversary projects. St. Anthony is one of the […]