“Be praised, my Lord, through our sister Mother Earth, who feeds us and rules us, and produces various fruits with colored flowers and herbs.” These telling words of St. Francis of Assisi are from his famous “Canticle of the Creatures.” Composed in 1224, eight centuries before talk of climate change and saving the environment, this […]
Archives for June 2015
Manaolana | Lisa Gomes: ‘You shall not have strange gods before me’
YOUCAT*: This commandment forbids us: to adore other gods and pagan deities or to worship an earthly idol or to devote oneself entirely to some earthly good (money, influence, success, beauty, youth and so on) to be superstitious, which means to adhere to esoteric, magic or occult or New Age practices or to get involved […]
Manaolana | Makana Aiona: The paradox of worry and weakness
I didn’t close up the windows! I worry that one day someone is going to rob us because I was careless in protecting my family. I also worry about my sons JP and Lance growing up Catholic only to aimlessly wander through young adulthood. I even worry about all 66 parishes in our state that […]
Heralding back: June 19, 2015
NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — June 18, 1965 Bro. James Wipfield, S.M., Director of the Hawaii Marianist Community, today announced plans for construction of a chapel for the priests and brothers of the Society of Mary to be built on the St. Louis High School-Chaminade College campus on Waialae Avenue. The new […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Rosary while driving: bad idea?
Q: Recently, at a parish discussion group, several people suggested that a good time to pray the rosary is while you are driving your car. I, though, have two questions: a) Is that a good prayer practice? And, b) Is it prudent and safe? (Albany, New York) A: Different people will give you different answers […]
Father John Catoir: On celebrating 55 years as a priest
In late May, I celebrated my 55th anniversary as a priest. Looking back on it, the day of my ordination was the happiest day of my life. Growing up as a boy, I was pretty normal, showing no special signs of piety. We were normal churchgoing Catholics. I attended Catholic schools, was interested in sports […]
Bill Dodds | Living in the present
“What time is it really?” That’s what our son, Thomas, wanted to know on a road trip across the United States back in 1989. We crossed an invisible line, and suddenly we were in a different time zone, asking “but what time is it really?” I remember when the kids were even younger and a […]
Kathleen T. Choi: Hard praying
My daily prayers include petitions that I’ve been making for years. These aren’t enormous requests like world peace or a cure for cancer. I’m interceding for certain persons beset by illness or situations that never seem to improve. Sometimes praying for them gets really hard, and I’m sorely tempted to quit. There seems to […]
Photo: New Franciscan fraternity
New Franciscan fraternity The Korean-speaking St. Clare Fraternity of the secular Franciscan Order was established June 6 in the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace. The group was sponsored by Oahu’s Marianne Cope Fraternity. Hawaii’s secular Franciscans also have fraternities in Kona, Hilo, and on Maui, and an emerging Fraternity on Kauai. The secular […]
Photo: Walking the extra mile
Walking the extra mile About 100 people walked from the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa in Kailhi-Palama to the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in downtown Honolulu June 7 for the diocese’s annual Eucharistic procession on the Feast of Corpus Christi. During the 1.25-mile procession, marchers sang hymns and prayed. Father Dominic Hoan Nguyen, […]
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