View from the pew I was looking every which way to avoid the topic of this week. Feeling guilty that I should even talk about giving thanks, I should confess all the times I fail to do that, or mouth thanks but with an insincere or ungrateful heart … and that’s just in the past […]
Archives for November 2019
Official notices: Nov. 29, 2019
Bishop’s calendar Bishop’s Schedule [Events indicated will be attended by Bishop’s delegate.] November 30, 10:00 am, Diocesan Review Board, Chancery, downtown Honolulu. November 30-December 1, Episcopal Visitation, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, Ewa Beach. December 3, 9:00 am, Diocesan Finance Council, Chancery. December 4, 6:15 pm, Holy Hour for Vocations, Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa, […]
Photo: In honor of veterans
The students of Holy Family Catholic Academy and Early Learning Center in Honolulu strung more than 300 red, white and blue paper leis to be presented to all former and active duty military servicemen and servicewomen and their families who attended special Masses in their honor at 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. […]
Photo: Texas-bound
Hawaii’s Catholic Committee on Scouting chairperson, Ellen Cleghorn, and her husband, Jack Cleghorn, are moving to Texas by the end of the year to be closer to their grandchildren. Both have been committee members for at least 10 years. Ellen has been the chairperson since 2013. The committee has been blessed and is grateful to […]
Composer giving Advent reflection, concert here
The music ministry of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in Honolulu, and pastor Father Khanh Pham-Nguyen, are once again sponsoring an Advent mission and concert with popular Catholic musician, songwriter and storyteller Steve Angrisano. This year’s Advent mission and “Thank You” concert with Angrisano will take place on Dec. 14 at 7 p.m. at Sts. […]
Laura Kelly Fanucci: Love, even around the family table
FAITH AT HOME Religion and politics. The two subjects you’re supposed to avoid in polite conversation. Except that the holiday season is when faith and family collide. Feasts like Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s bring moments ripe for conversation with relatives — for better or for worse. What can we do when talking about our […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Did Judas receive Communion? Can I child be refused for baptism?
QUESTION CORNER Q: At the Last Supper, Jesus told the apostles to take his body and his blood. But Christ knew that Judas was in a state of serious sin. So how could he have let him receive? (Alexandria, Louisiana) A: Scripture scholars indicate that there is room for debate as to whether Judas was […]
Annual appeal helps religious communities care for aging members
The annual Retirement Fund for Religious collection will be held Dec. 7-8 in the Diocese of Honolulu. The parish-based appeal is coordinated by the National Religious Retirement Office. Proceeds help hundreds of U.S. religious communities to care for aging members. Some 30,000 senior Catholic sisters, brothers and religious order priests benefit, including some in Hawaii. […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Making real the coming of Jesus
FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT Isaiah 2:1-5; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:37-44 With this weekend, the church begins its new liturgical year. In so doing, it also begins to use the A Cycle of readings at Sunday Masses. This weekend’s first reading is from the first section of the Book of Isaiah. Isaiah is one of the […]
Greg Erlandson: Advent: Can we do it?
AMID THE FRAY How is your supply of Christmas cheer doing these days? Mine is in rather short supply. Every year around this time I grouse about the Christmas ads in September and the Christmas music in October, the carefully crafted marketing intended to prompt a Pavlovian response of debt-fueled consumerism. William Wordsworth wrote, “The […]
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