Father Jong Ki Kim is excited that Pope Francis’ first major trip to Asia will be to his home diocese of Daejeon, South Korea, and that he and 23 others from Hawaii’s Korean Catholic Community will be there. Father Kim is the head chaplain for the Korean Catholic Community based at St. Pius X Parish […]
Archives for August 2014
Back to School 2014 | Hawaii Catholic school enrollment continues to drop hundreds a year
Hawaii Catholic schools continue to lose several hundred students a year, a trend that has been consistent for the past decade. It is the equivalent of one grade school closing every 12 months. According to figures provided by the Hawaii Catholic Schools office, the 2013 school year opened with 9,110 preschool, elementary and high school […]
Back to School 2014 | Hawaii Catholic Schools chart 2014
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Remembering a loving uncle, model priest
The advantage of having a priest for an uncle, Jamie Psak said, was that everything got blessed. Cars, boats, homes, kids, pets. The holy water was always available, she said, as long as you kept adding water to the original supply. You can’t dilute water. Her Uncle Al told her that. Psak’s Uncle Al was […]
Hawaii’s Young Ladies Institute seeking spark of new membership
Young Ladies Institute delegation meets with Father Gary Secor on July 24. From left, Elizabeth Sanchez, Evelyn Cabral, Patricia McGuire, June McJunkin and Rosalie Smith. (HCH photo | Darlene Dela Cruz) The “young” in Young Ladies Institute does not refer to a chronological age, but rather the spirit the women of this 127-year-old Catholic […]
Manaolana | Getting certified
Lisa Gomes, diocesan director of the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry, second from left, joins participants in the Certificate in Youth Ministry Studies program for class at St. Stephen Diocesan Center, July 24. (HCH photo | Darlene Dela Cruz) Intense new studies program trains people to be ‘better servants of the Lord through […]
Viriditas: Father Francisco Nicomedes S. Sanchez, diocesan priest
Physical and spiritual maintenance I am one of three brother priests who were ordained in the Diocese of Butuan, Philippines, in 1994. One of my companions is working in the university, and the other is working as a chaplain in the bishop’s residence. I was assigned in a city parish as priest and chaplain. I […]
Manalolana | Makana’s helpful hints: Let it thrive
We always watch HGTV to see the latest home transformations, so when we moved to our new place with its yard of weeds, we were excited to finally be able to do some transformation ourselves! However, watching countless transformations on television gave us no idea of how to go from before to after, no money […]
Office for Social Ministry: God didn’t give me cancer
Aloha, When you’re told you have cancer, and then reminded that God doesn’t give you more than you can handle, it’s only natural to translate that to mean that God gave you cancer. Really? God is the reason my world has been turned upside down? And who doesn’t look back with sadness remembering all the […]
Kathleen T. Choi: Imagine that
St. Ignatius Loyola taught his Jesuits a way of encountering God that he called the Spiritual Exercises. One exercise is meditating on a scene from the Gospels. You try to picture the event in detail, using all your senses, as if you were actually present. As you watch Christ, he becomes more real. Your heart […]
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