By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Seventy years. Sixty years. Fifty years. Twenty-five years. Adding up the decades is how we feebly try to measure the immeasurable impact of the 33 Hawaii religious men and women and priests honored on the anniversaries of their religious commitment to God and humanity at a special morning […]
Archives for May 2019
Eva Andrade: Session ends with a surprise
LEGISLATIVE REPORT The 30th Hawaii state legislature ended May 2. The biggest surprise was the failure of the bill that would permanently remove the window on the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse — HB 18 SD1. At the last hour, the bill ended up not leaving the conference committee. We understand that some […]
Bishop Larry Silva: If we listen to his voice
WITNESS TO JESUS | FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Here is the prepared text of the homily of Bishop Larry Silva delivered May 12, the Fourth Sunday of Easter, at Our Lady of the Mount Church, Kalihi, and Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Ewa Beach. Both Masses celebrated the reception of the sacraments of Confirmation […]
SISTER TOMASA MARCOS, CSJ | 1930-2019
Island-born Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet was a religious for 69 years Honolulu-born Sister Tomasa Marcos, a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet who served for many years as a teacher and vice-principal at Holy Trinity School in Kuliouou, died April 29 in Honolulu. She was 88 and in religious life for 69 years. […]
Jean Vanier | 1928-2019
Founder of L’Arche changed the lives of the intellectually disabled By Michael Swan Catholic News Service TORONTO — Jean Vanier, 90, founder of L’Arche communities and co-founder of Faith and Light, died May 7. Vanier had been suffering from cancer and was assisted at a L’Arche facility in Paris. Vanier was the author of some […]
A saint for our times
By Catholic News Service This editorial appeared online May 8 on the website of The Catholic Register, the Toronto-based national Catholic Canadian newspaper. Jean Vanier, Canadian writer, philosopher and humanitarian who died May 7, was a champion for people with intellectual disabilities and touched countless lives through his constant message of love. “The message of […]
Damien Day scenes
Top, Indonesian Sacred Hearts Sister Romeka Situmorang venerates the relic of St. Damien on his feast day, May 10, after an evening Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace celebrated by Bishop Larry Silva. Above, students from Saint Louis School’s halau chant as they present a lei before the statue of St. […]
Talk story: To see with a father’s eyes
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Seeing with the eyes of faith is a summons … to create conditions in which every person can feel loved, especially those who feel forgotten by God because they are forgotten by their brothers and sisters.” (Pope Francis in Bulgaria, May 2019) During an historic trip to Bulgaria earlier this May, […]
Blessed Sacrament Parish celebrates Divine Mercy with a consecration
By Lei Kondo Special to the Hawaii Catholic Herald The Feast of Divine Mercy was celebrated at the 7 a.m. Mass at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Pauoa Valley on April 28. A 6-foot picture of Jesus with streams of light emanating from his heart was beautifully bedecked with a braided ti leaf lei entwined with […]
May is the month of St. Damien
COMMENTARY By Sherry Hayes-Peirce In May we celebrate our Blessed Mother and our earthly mother. But it is also a time to celebrate our beloved St. Damien de Veuster, whose feast day is May 10. This year marks the 155th anniversary of the arrival of this great saint to Hawaii. Since the canonization in Rome […]
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