Chrism Mass – April 12, 2022
The Chrism Mass is the annual liturgy where oils for use in administering the sacraments are blessed.
Bishop Larry Silva pours and stirs balsam into the Chrism oil and then breaths the “breath of the Holy Spirit” into the sacred oil. at the April 12, 2022, Chrism Mass at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa in Honolulu.
Bishop Larry Silva pours balsam into the Chrism Oil at the Chrism Mass on Tuesday, April 12 at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa in Honolulu. (Photos courtesy Dann Ebina)
Baskets of oils ready to go back to their respective parishes.
Chrism Mass 2022 (Photo: Dann Ebina)
Holy Thursday – April 14, 2022
At the Holy Thursday evening service, Catholics commemorate the Last Supper and Jesus’ washing of his disciple’s feet.
A little girl looks intently at what’s going on in front of her at the start of the April 14 Holy Thursday mass at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa in Honolulu. (HCH photo: Anna Weaver)
Bishop Silva makes eye contact with the first person to get her feet washed during the April 14 Holy Thursday Mass. (HCH Photo: Anna Weaver)
Bishop Silva washes the feet of Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa parishioners. (HCH Photo: Anna Weaver)
Bishop Silva leads a Eucharistic procession from inside the co-cathedral to the outside of the church and back inside at the end of the Holy Thursday Mass on April 14. Benediction and adoration finished the evening. (HCH Photo: Anna Weaver)
Good Friday – April 15, 2022
The Good Friday Morning Prayer service is shorter and much more subdued compared to the pageantry and length of the midday Good Friday Way of the Cross service. Morning prayer consists of sung and said psalms and other prayers. Bishop Silva led the April 15 morning service at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu.
Bishop Silva prays with eyes closed during the Good Friday Morning Prayer service at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in downtown Honolulu on April 15. (HCH photo: Anna Weaver)
The Celebration of the Passion of the Lord was celebrated at noon at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace. It was a communion service as no Masses are held on Good Friday. This year, one of the petitions was for the end of the coronavirus crisis, and the Veneration of the Cross was done differently. Instead of people touching the cross, it was carried section by section throughout the church for people to stand and bow or kneel in front of.
Bishop Silva kneels during the beginning of the Celebration of the Passion of the Lord on Good Friday, April 15 at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace. (HCH Photo: Anna Weaver)
The cross is carried to the front of the cathedral basilica for veneration during the Celebration of the Passion of the Lord, April 14. (HCH Photo: Anna Weaver)
Deacon Joseph Almuena holds up the cross during Veneration of the Cross which takes place just past the midpoint of the Celebration of the Passion of the Lord service on Good Friday. (HCH Photo: Anna Weaver)
Holy Saturday – April 16, 2022
Bishop Larry Bishop Silva marks the new Paschal Candle at the start of the Easter Vigil outside the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady Peace on April 16. (HCH Photo: Anna Weaver)
Bishop Silva prepares to light the new Paschal Candle at the start of the Easter Vigil outside the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady Peace on April 16. (HCH Photo: Anna Weaver)
Deacon Joseph Almuena takes a light from the new Paschal Candle as smaller candles are light throughout the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady Peace on April 16. (HCH Photo: Anna Weaver)
Bishop Silva with a candle as the Easter Vigil moves inside the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady Peace on April 16. (HCH Photo: Anna Weaver)
Lights on in the cathedral basilica at the start of the Easter Vigil on April 16. (HCH Photo: Anna Weaver)
Deacon Almuena leads the Exsultet (Easter proclamation). (HCH Photo: Anna Weaver)
Easter Vigil attendance was not back to pre-COVID levels at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady Peace on April 16 but the pews were mostly full. (HCH Photo: Anna Weaver)
