Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

2022 in review

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Bishop Larry Silva issues instructions for the celebration of the Latin Mass; cause for Joseph Dutton moves forward; Gov. David Ige signs bill designating $5 million toward Kalaupapa memorial

Here is a month-by-month review of the Catholic news in Hawaii in 2022 as reported in the Hawaii Catholic Herald

Compiled by Anna Weaver
Hawaii Catholic Herald

January

  • On Jan. 9, Bishop Larry Silva released new instructions with small changes for the local application of Pope Francis’ new rules on the use of the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass. The bishop gave formal permission to celebrate the Mass to 10 priests in Hawaii.
  • On Jan 18, at the annual Red Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, guest speaker and superintendent of Hawaii Catholic Schools Llewellyn Young, told the story of how Hawaii’s Catholic schools faced down the pandemic.
  • On Jan. 22, the first investiture for the Hawaii branch of the ancient chivalric Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem, took place at St. Augustine Church in Waikiki. Seven members were invested in a short ceremony, including Bishop Larry Silva.

February

  • Hawaii Catholic Schools administrative secretary Barbara Yamasaki, one of the longest-serving lay Diocese of Honolulu employees ever, retired after 58 years of service.
  • Eight permanent deacon candidates were designated as lectors Feb. 13 by Bishop Larry Silva at St. Stephen Diocesan Center Chapel.
  • Two Chaminade University of Honolulu students were included in a Feb. 24 video call with Pope Francis and 130 students from 58 universities in 21 countries to discuss topics related to the 2023 Synod of Bishops.

March

  • In Rites of Election March 5 and 6, 204 catechumens signed their names in their parish’s Book of the Elect. They were set to be baptized in parishes across Hawaii on the Easter Vigil, April 16, making their number 55 more than last year.
  • A March 19 Mass at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa in Honolulu celebrated the end of the 500th anniversary year of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines.
  • Kneeling before the statue of Our Lady of Fatima March 25 during the noon Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, Bishop Larry Silva joined Pope Francis and the world’s bishops in leading local congregations in the consecration of the world, particularly Russia and Ukraine, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

April

  • In an April 19 video announcement, the head of the Daughters of St. Paul in the U.S. and Toronto announced that the religious order of women, who served Hawaii for nearly 50 years spreading the Gospel through their apostolate of the printed word and other forms of media, would close its Pauline Book and Media Center on Bishop Street in downtown Honolulu and leave the islands on June 16, as part of a reconfiguring of the community’s 13 North American locations.

May

  • At a May 10 Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, Bishop Larry Silva presided over the historic opening session of the diocesan inquiry for the cause of the beatification and canonization of Joseph Dutton, the Civil War veteran who spent the final 48 years of his life caring for the patients of Kalaupapa, Molokai.
  • Then-Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego John Dolan ordained Maui man Dario Rinaldi to the priesthood for the Diocese of Honolulu on May 20 at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa in Honolulu. Bishop Dolan was a last-minute substitute for Bishop Larry Silva, who came down with COVID-19.

Barbara Yamasaki, long-serving diocesan employee, retires after 56 years; diocese celebrates 500th anniversary of Christianity in the Philippines; Ewa Beach parish breaks ground for new church

June

  • Gov. David Ige signed Senate Bill 3338 on June 29 appropriating $5 million in state funds to build The Kalaupapa Memorial, a monument to the thousands of people, mostly unknown, who were forcibly quarantined to the Hansen’s disease settlement on Molokai from 1866 to 1969.

July

  • Catholic Charities Hawaii, the island church’s primary social service agency, turned 75 in July.
  • Bishop Larry Silva ordained Arrion Rosales-Llantos a transitional deacon at his home parish of St. Michael in Kailua-Kona on July 1.
  • On July 9, Bishop Larry Silva announced a change of name from the diocesan Office of Religious Education to “Office of Faith Formation.”
  • Catholic Charities Housing Development Corporation (CCHDC) dedicated the second and final phase of its Kahului Lani senior affordable rental housing development in Kahului, Maui on July 19.
  • St. Rita Parish in Haiku, Maui, celebrated 100 years on July 30 and 31 with Masses and celebrations.

August

  • St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii celebrated the 95th anniversary of the opening of St. Francis Hospital in Liliha with a new book.
  • St. Philomena Church, most likely the most moved-around parish on Oahu, celebrated its 80th anniversary on Aug. 15, at its fourth and final location on Ala Laulani Street in the Salt Lake district of Honolulu.
  • Bishop Larry Silva presided at the groundbreaking Aug. 20 of the new 11,400-square-foot Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Ewa Beach, a fast-growing district in Leeward Oahu.
  • On Aug. 28, Mary, Star of the Sea Parish and Schools closed their diamond jubilee year with a trio of Masses celebrating the past, present and future and burying of a time capsule to be opened when the two Waialae-Kahala institutions hit the first-century mark in 2046.

September

  • Hawaii’s tenth cohort of candidates for the permanent diaconate, eight men, received from Bishop Larry Silva the ministry of acolyte, Sept. 11, at St. Stephen Diocesan Center Chapel.
  • The first Hawaii lay members of the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette were commissioned at Christ the King Parish in Kahului on Sept. 19, the feast day of Our Lady of La Salette.

October

  • Bishop Larry Silva blessed the diocese’s first columbarium at St. Ann Church in Kaneohe on Oct. 1.
  • The deteriorating St. Gabriel Mission in Keanae, Maui, along the Hana Highway burned to the ground between Oct. 1-2.
  • On Oct. 5, Catholic Charities Housing Development Corporation (CCHDC) dedicated the third phase of its Meheula Vista senior affordable rental housing development in Mililani Mauka and blessed and broke ground for phase four.
  • Three Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians (MSMHC) arrived to assume involvement in parish ministry at St. Catherine of Alexandria Church and School in Kapaa, Kauai, on Oct. 7.
  • The Diocese of Honolulu marked the 10th anniversary of Mother Marianne Cope’s canonization with an Oct. 23 Mass at St. Francis Church in Kalaupapa, Molokai, an Oct. 25 Mass at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa and other celebrations.
  • Hawaii seminarians at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park, California, took big steps in their formation Oct. 24. Anthony Poore received the minor order of lector, and Taylor Mitchell received the minor order of acolyte. In Wisconsin, seminarian John Akau received the ministry of acolyte Oct. 26 at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology, in Hales Corners.

November

  • The cause for the beatification and canonization of American layman Joseph Dutton continued to gain traction and held its first major fundraising event, a gala luncheon and silent auction Nov. 9 at the Ala Moana Hotel in Honolulu.
  • In late November, Bishop Larry Silva announced he was merging two neighboring small parishes on the Hamakua Coast on the Big Island, effective Jan. 1, 2023. Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, Papaikou, (which includes Good Shepherd Church in Honomu), and St. Anthony Parish, Papaaloa, which has a Laupahoehoe mailing address are now Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish and include the territory of all three churches located between St. Joseph Parish in Hilo to the south and Our Lady of Lourdes to the north in Honokaa. St. Anthony’s parish community had become too small, at about 30 people, to be self-sustaining.
  • Famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma performed an intimate micro-concert in Kalaupapa on Molokai on Nov. 30 as part of his world tour.
  • Carmel of the Holy Trinity, Hawaii’s Carmelite monastery in Kaneohe, announced that it has a new Carmelite nun aspirant, Tiffanie Han, for postulancy, and that its postulant Leslie Watanabe, who entered the order in 2021, will soon become a novice.

December

  • Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary’s U.S. provincial superior Sacred Hearts Father Lane Akiona traveled to India for the ordination of a new priest for the province on Nov. 16. In December, he traveled to Tonga for another ordination for the province. Between September and December, a total of five new priests were ordained for the U.S. province in five ceremonies. A Hawaii resident is set to be ordained Jan. 24 on Oahu.

Our faithful departed

We remember in prayer the priests, religious and lay people in our Hawaii church ohana who died in the year past. Here, in alphabetical order, is a list of faithful departed whose obituaries appeared in the Hawaii Catholic Herald in 2022 and late 2021.

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