Last Monday, I was at Costco getting meat, chicken, bagels and Melona bars (request of the wife). When I got to the checkout area, it was packed! The “Hurricane rush” had already begun and here I was worried about the Melona bars. The five wise bridesmaids took extra lamp oil with them. The five foolish […]
Archives for August 2014
Stephen Kent: The senseless loss of children’s lives
These hours-long “humanitarian cease-fires” called to interrupt the ongoing carnage between Israel and Gaza are obscene. They are implemented, observed then violated. Their purpose is to allow time for civilians to leave their places of relative safety in search for food, medicine and taking the injured to medical care. Civilian victims of the hubris of […]
Manaolana | Lisa’s catechism corner: How does a one act justly?
Church teaching explained to you YOUCAT*: One acts justly by always making sure to give to God and to one’s neighbor what is due to them. [1807, 1836] As a child I remember thinking life wasn’t fair because I couldn’t have this or that. You know — manini-kine stuff. I didn’t think adults were acting […]
Official notices: Aug. 15, 2014
Bishop’s calendar Bishop’s Schedule [Events indicated will be attended by Bishop’s delegate] August 16, 12:00 pm, Mass for the Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace, downtown Honolulu. August 17, 10:00 am, Installation of Fr. Arnold Ortiz as Pastor of St. Elizabeth Parish, Aiea. August 19, 9:30 am, Bishop’s Administrative […]
Office for Social Ministry: Standing up for our veterans
Aloha, On Aug. 6, many were preparing for Hurricanes Iselle and Julio to hit Hawaii, including a good number of the state’s full-time National Guardsmen. That same day, it was announced the state had received additional funding, hundreds of thousands of dollars, to help house homeless veterans. One out of every three homeless males in […]
Memorial Mass for Maryknoll Sister Marie Patrice Kehoe
A memorial Mass will be celebrated for Maryknoll Sister Marie Patrice Kehoe at 5 p.m., Aug. 22, at Sacred Hearts Church in Honolulu. Sister Marie Patrice, a native of New York City, died Aug. 9 at Maryknoll Center in Ossining, N.Y. She was 91 and a Maryknoll Sister for 73 years. She came to Hawaii […]
Vatican honors Honolulu cathedral with status of ‘minor basilica’
The Vatican has given Honolulu’s Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace the honorary title of “minor basilica” in recognition of its historic and spiritual significance. The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in Rome granted Bishop Larry Silva’s petition for the special designation with a 200-word decree in Latin dated May […]
A church history: Cathedral becomes a basilica
Compiled from the writing of Father Louis H. Yim and Sacred Hearts Father Robert Schoofs July 7, 1827: Arrival of first Catholic missionaries to Hawaii. July 14, 1827: First recorded Mass on Hawaiian soil celebrated in a grass hut on a rented lot in Honolulu. January 1828: Hawaii’s first Catholic church built on land granted […]
Back to School 2014| Grading the ‘System,’ an interview with the superintendent
On a scale from A to F, Michael Rockers measures the success of Hawaii Catholic schools’ 3-year-old strategic plan As local Catholic school students once again hit the books, school administrators and teachers continue their work creating thriving academic environments that foster faith, integrity and scholarship in Island youth. Much like the pupils are guided […]
Leis, songs, kisses welcome back St. Marianne to Isles
An employee at the United Airlines cargo facility outside the Honolulu International Airport kisses the casket containing the remains of St. Marianne Cope, which arrived in Honolulu from Syracuse, N.Y., July 27. St. Marianne’s remains would be enshrined in the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace on July 31. (HCH photo | Darlene Dela […]
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