WITNESS TO JESUS | FIFTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME Here is the text of Bishop Larry Silva’s homily for the Fifteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, delivered July 15 at a Mass at Catholic Charities Hawaii marking the 40th anniversary of Hawaii’s Catholic Charismatic Renewal. On several occasions I have met with city and state officials […]
Archives for July 2018
Scrub Bucket Ministries: ‘Live Into Your Call’
Scrub Bucket Gospel Ministries will offer “Live Into Your Call,” a morning retreat, 8:30 a.m.-noon, Saturday, Aug. 25, in St. Anthony Parish Hall, Kailua. The event is open to all men and women at no charge, though a free will offering will be appreciated. For information and reservations, call Pat Tom, 261-8104, 729-2991; or […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Loaves, fishes and faith
17TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 2 Kings 4:42-44; Ephesians 4:1-6; John 6:1-15 The Second Book of Kings is the source of this weekend’s first reading. Originally, First and Second Kings composed one volume, but at one point in the revision of the Scriptures, this one volume was divided into two parts. As the title implies, […]
Effie Caldarola: Execution and mercy
FOR THE JOURNEY In early July, the Nebraska Supreme Court issued an Aug. 14 execution date for Carey Dean Moore. Moore, 60, has been sitting on death row for nearly four decades. It was 1979 when he killed two Omaha cabdrivers five days apart, and in 1980 he was sentenced to death for these crimes. […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: ‘Last rites’ for a comatose person?
QUESTION CORNER Q: My daughter, who was 50 years of age, became deathly ill, spent six weeks in the intensive care unit, then entered hospice to die. When death was imminent, a nurse finally found a priest to administer last rites. (It was a Jewish hospice, and they weren’t used to calling a priest.) By […]
Father Eugene Hemrick: More eloquence please
THE HUMAN SIDE After making a giant step forward in modern communications, have we also taken two steps backward? Thanks to the internet, people are communicating with each other in wonderful ways. For example, shut-ins once disconnected from society are able to stay connected with friends, and we now have all sorts of libraries at […]
Promoting religious vocations locally and as a board member of Serra International
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald St. Anthony, Kailua, parishioner Chuck Furr was elected to his fourth two-year term on the board of trustees of Serra International, an organization dedicated to the promotion of priestly and religious vocations, at the Serra International convention in Nashville, June 27-July 1. Furr is an active member of Hawaii’s […]
Pray like a saint at day-long Kalihi retreat
St. Anthony Retreat Center in verdant Kalihi Valley is offering a one-day retreat, “Praying with the Saints” 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Aug. 25, at Rose Hill in the retreat center at 3351 Kalihi Street in Honolulu. “There are many ways to pray!” states the retreat flyer. “Come discover with Sacred Hearts Sister Marie Lemertand Malulani […]
Day symposium to address suicide, human trafficking, other life issues
The second annual Life Symposium, “Na Mo‘olelo Ola: Living Stories,” 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Aug. 17, at the KROC Center in Kapolei will feature speakers on difficult life topics including suicide, human trafficking, death and dying, and homelessness. The event will address these issues through the lens of Scripture, church teaching, and personal testimonies. The day […]
Training future priests is expensive
Annual collection needs more support to cover Hawaii seminarian education By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Any parent who has saved or paid for a child’s higher education knows that learning doesn’t come cheap. That remains the case for the Diocese of Honolulu to support its seminarians through the coursework and degrees that will make […]