NEWS FROM PAGES PAST
50 years ago — Oct. 7, 1966
Miss Chris Hammond left the Safeway supermarket on Tuesday with a cart of seafood as she stocked the family’s kitchen shelves in preparation for today’s and every Friday’s observance of “meatless Fridays.” She expressed surprise at the great variety of frozen and canned seafoods available at Safeway. The new “meatless Friday’s for Catholics in Hawaii was announced last week by the most Reverend James J. Sweeney, Bishop of Honolulu. The ancient dispensation from this Church law was revoked in February and takes effect today throughout the state of Hawaii. (Herald photo)
25 years ago — Oct. 11, 1991
Called by name
“Called by Name.” If you haven’t yet heard those words, you most certainly will sooner or later. “Called by Name” is a program designated to pull the notion of religious vocation out of a sea of doubt, quandary and mystery, and give parish communities the confidence and will to encourage the call to priesthood and the religious life.
“Called by Name” is slowly sweeping the nation and arrives this month in five parishes in Hawaii.
The program may be varied, but it generally works like this: A parish community gives the subject of religious vocations a lot of talk, discussion, attention, and prayer. It then invites its members to nominate, through the filling out of cards, those people seen to possess the potential to be priests, brothers or sisters. The nominees are then given a formal opportunity to respond to the invitation. …
During the last three weeks of October, the invitation cards will be distributed.
10 years ago — Oct. 6, 2006
Bishop begins strategic planning for the diocese
What will Hawaii’s Catholic parishes look like four years from now? Or 14 years from now, in the year 2020? …
Bishop Larry Silva’s strategic planning process for the Diocese of Honolulu, introduced in this edition of the Hawaii Catholic Herald, is designed to prepare the church in Hawaii for the future.
“Our planning will help us identify needs for pastoral and lay staffing, facilities and services, and develop ways to meet those needs,” the bishop writes in his “Statement Regarding Planning for the Diocese of Honolulu.” …
The planning process, which has already started, will take place in four phases and is scheduled to be completed by the fall of 2007. …
The first step is to survey the diocese’s present resources and needs. Among the issues to be taken into account are spiritual formation and pastoral needs, social justice programs, schools, charitable services, health care and hospices, places of worship, parish demographics, human resources and staffing, land and facilities and communications and technology.
