“Star Light, Star Bright,” the Christmas party hosted by the diocese to reunite women prison inmates with their families, is scheduled for Dec. 14 at the Women’s Community Correctional Center in Kailua. This year marks the fourth time that the Star Light, Star Bright event will be held on the prison grounds. Volunteers from diocesan […]
Archives for December 2013
Manaolana | Makana’s helpful hints: One body
In 1996, the U.S. bishops put together a pastoral plan for ministry to young adults entitled “Sons and Daughters of the Light.” Since then, dioceses have been making young adult ministry a ministry staple, but everyone has gone about it differently. Some have focused on trying to establish ministries in parishes and others have created […]
Manaolana | Lisa’s catechism corner: ‘On earth as it is in heaven’
YOUCAT*: When we pray for the universal accomplishment of God’s will, we pray that on earth and in our own heart it may become as it already is in heaven. [2822-2827, 2860] This week’s Catechism Corner is inspired by my friend, Dann. Every time we pray the Lord’s Prayer, we say, “Thy will be done, […]
Manaolana | Christina Capecchi: Waiting for a baby: on Advent and adoption
For years folks told Mike and Maria Slavik that their blue colonial-style house looked like a Christmas card. Maria would be out mowing the lawn in the middle of July and someone would stop to say he loved the way it was decorated for the holidays. So they decided to make it into a card, […]
Manaolana | Sidebar: Dec. 6, 2013
Quote “You create the conditions for a change to happen, for people to make the change they want … I don’t make the change. I just create the conditions as best I can.” | Comboni Father Giovanni Esti, who arrived in Egypt in 2007 to create a social development center for young people in Cairo […]
8 parishes on 2 islands: bishop has full Misa de Gallo schedule
Bishop Larry Silva will rise with the roosters on the eight days before Christmas to celebrate the Misa de Gallo in eight parishes on Oahu and Kauai. The bishop in recent years has included in his schedule this novena of dawn liturgies, a popular Filipino tradition whose name translates as “Mass of the Rooster,” in […]
Photo: Top speller crowned
D-I-A-D-E-M was the word that brought fifth grader Jordan Calantoc, center behind the podium, to victory at the third annual spelling bee at St. Theresa School in Honolulu. The two top spellers from each grade participated in the school’s overall competition on Nov. 13. Jordan will move on to the district’s Spelling Bee and, if […]
Heralding back: Dec. 6, 2013
NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Dec. 6, 1963 On their way to class are collegians, Clarence Liu, Jr., Wayne Ventura, and James Kauhane, who are completing their seventh year at St. Stephen’s Seminary. Within a matter of months they will be leaving for St. Patrick’s Major Seminary in Menlo Park, California. This […]
Official Notices: Dec. 6, 2013
Bishop’s calendar December 6, 9:00 am, Augustine Educational Foundation Board, Chancery, downtown, Honolulu; 10:30 am, Augustine Educational Foundation Members Meeting, Chancery; 6:00 pm, 25th Annual “Light Up A Memory” Tree Lighting Ceremony, St. Francis Hospice, Nuuanu. December 8, 10:30 am, Mass at Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace, downtown Honolulu; 6:00 pm, Patrick W. Hopper […]
Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: Dec. 6, 2013
Quizmaniacs, we’re halfway through Advent. This set of questions will take us into the liturgical season’s third week and Gaudete Sunday, when we will light the pink candle of joy. May your Advent journey continue to be filled with warmth and happy expectancy as we wait for Jesus — and as you do the following […]