EMBRACING FAMILY Parenting is not for wimps. Sleep-deprivation. Long hours in the office. Long hours at home. Diapers, diapers and more diapers. Coughs and runny noses. Trips to the urgent care. Our small children cry and want hugs because they want us with them. Later they cry because they don’t want us there and […]
Archives for April 2023
St. John Vianney Parish festival to top off celebration of 60 years
St. John Vianney Church will top off its 60th anniversary year with a joyful festival Saturday, May 6, 6-8 p.m. “A Praise Festival” at 920 Keolu Drive will follow a special 5 p.m. Mass. The evening will feature several food trucks with delicious meals for sale, including hamburgers, hot dogs, tacos, fresh poke, Kona Ice […]
Sister Scholastica Mondejar, Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary: It was just like yesterday
VIRIDITAS2: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald For 21 years, from 1973 to 1994, I taught at St. Catherine School in Kapaa on Kauai. Strangely, even though that was almost 30 years ago, it felt just like yesterday when I had the opportunity to visit Kapaa again last month. […]
Heralding back: April 28, 2023
NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — April 27, 1973 BENEFIT FOR LEARNING – The Special Education Center of Oahu’s director, Sister Agnes Jerome Murphy, oversees the activities of one of the students, who is handicapped in learning. This specialized school for such students will hold a benefit next Saturday at the Kapiolani Park […]
MARYKNOLL SISTER MARIE MAY | 1928-2023
Missioner, teacher, social worker served island communities with love Maryknoll Sister Marie Anne May, who served in Hawaii for 15 years as a teacher and a social worker before spending the balance of her life’s mission on the Micronesian island of Yap, died at Maryknoll Sisters Center in New York on April 6. She was […]
SISTER ANITA MARIE ROSCO, CSJ | 1928-2023
Carondelet sister loved teaching, sports, playing Hawaiian music Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet Anita Marie Rosco who spent a lifetime teaching kindergarten through grade four in schools in California and Hawaii, died unexpectedly in Honolulu on April 10, three weeks shy of her 95th birthday. She was a religious sister for 73 years. For […]
SISTER MARY THECLA MUTSUYE TSURUDA, MM | 1924-2023
Maryknoll sister brought joy to the elderly she served in Hawaii Maryknoll Sister Mary Thecla Mutsuye Tsuruda whose gentle spirit brought joy to the lives of the elderly she served at Honolulu’s Catholic Social Services and Catholic Charities Hawaii in the 1980s and 1990s, died April 5 at Maryknoll, New York. She was 98, and […]
Official notices: April 28, 2023
Bishop’s Schedule [Events indicated will be attended by the Bishop’s delegate.] April 28, 8:00 am, Bagels with Bishop, Damien Memorial School, Kalihi; 6:00 pm, Dinner with Catholic Military Chaplains. April 29, 10:00 am, Mass for Clergy and Religious Jubilarians, Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa, Honolulu; 5:00 pm, Mass with Confirmation & First Holy Communion, St. John […]
Effie Caldarola: O Life! O Death! O Mystery!
COMMENTARY My friend volunteered in a program called NODA — No One Dies Alone. It was not meant to walk the long journey through terminal illness with someone. It was, in fact, quite literal. At the hour of death, none of us should be alone. The hospital might have a suffering patient who was living […]
Jenna Marie Cooper: Where did Lazarus go before Jesus raised him?
QUESTION CORNER Q: Regarding the people Jesus raised from the dead, where were their souls while they were dead? (Location withheld) A: Among the many miracles Jesus performed as part of his public ministry, some of the most remarkable include his raising several recently-deceased people from the dead. In the Gospels we read of the […]