Father Michael Sawyer and Father David Barfknecht of the Benedictine Monastery in Waialua have been incardinated into the Diocese of Honolulu, Bishop Larry Silva announced in the official notices in this issue of the Hawaii Catholic Herald (See page 2). This change in association follows the monastery’s split last year from the Italy-based Olivetan Benedictine […]
Archives for November 2013
New St. Michael Church, Kona, slowly emerging from solid footings
The old parish coral grotto stands center amidst the excavations for the foundation of the new St. Michael Church. It’s been seven years since the 6.7 magnitude earthquake hit off the shores of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii rousing residents and tourists from their beds and causing the church of St. Michael the Archangel to shudder. The […]
Hawaii’s new religious and clergy hail from the Philippines, India, Taiwan, New Jersey
Here are some of the more recent arrivals of religious and clergy to Hawaii’s shores. Marianist Brother Mark Motz Campus minister, Chaminade Brother Motz is from West Chester, Ohio. He has an older brother and a younger sister. He graduated from the University of Dayton in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in religious studies. In […]
Manaolana | Lisa’s catechism corner: Freedom…isn’t evil an option?
YOUCAT: Evil is only apparently worth striving for, and deciding in favor of evil only apparently makes us free. Evil does not make us happy but rather deprives us of what is truly good; it chains us to something futile and in the end destroys our freedom entirely. [1730-1733, 1743-1744] In the last issue, I […]
Photos: Over the edge
Father Arnold Ortiz of the Oblates of St. Joseph and Sister Ruth Zonunthari of the Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians rappelled down the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel Nov. 2 as part of the “Over the Edge” fundraiser for Special Olympics Hawaii. Parishioners from St. Elizabeth Church in Aiea, where Father Ortiz is administrator and […]
Photo: Mop ministry
Members of the young adult ministry at St. Elizabeth Church in Aiea visited Kalaupapa, Molokai, Nov. 1-3 for a service project that doubled as an educational journey. Corry Lopez, Mercedes Matthews, Aaron Morris, Paula Pastor, Celia Downes and ministry adviser Manette Kokubun cleaned St. Francis Church in Kalaupapa and St. Philomena Church in Kalawao and […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Without God, we are doomed 2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14 2 Thessalonians 2:16-3:5 Luke 20:27-38 This weekend, observed by the church as the Thirty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time, has as its first reading a section from the Second Book of Maccabees. Maccabees, First or Second, rarely appears as a reading at Mass. These books are late […]
Letters to the Herald
Knowing right from wrong I am a catechist who prepares adults for the Sacrament of Confirmation. I tell my students that, as confirmed Catholics, we are all called to defend what is holy; to object to what is wrong. We cannot sit back and watch events unfold; we must take action whenever we are able […]
Viriditas: Sister Lourdes Fernandez, Maryknoll Sisters
The energy of the grace of God Mission is adventure. When the U.S. bishops, through the LCWR (Leadership Council of Women Religious) invited religious of different congregations to volunteer to go to Albania in the 1990s, I said, “Yes.” I had the openness and the enthusiasm to go. I had never been to Europe or […]
Play gives dramatic setting to words of Hawaii’s homeless
“Houseless in Paradise,” an original play based on interviews with more than 60 members of Oahu’s homeless community and those trying to help them, will be presented Nov. 15-16 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 17 at 4 p.m. at the Catholic Charities Hawaii community hall in upper Makiki. Produced by Playbuilders community theatre, the drama […]