WITNESS TO JESUS | TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME This is the prepared text of the homily for the 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time, delivered by Bishop Larry Silva, Sept. 24, at Immaculate Conception Church, Lihue, on the occasion of the installation of the new pastor. I was recently speaking to one of our […]
Relief fund suspends applications to focus on timely aid
Maui fires By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Applications to the Maui Disaster Relief Fund were suspended Oct. 11 after an overwhelming response of more than 1,500 online applications poured in since the program opened on Oct. 1. “Our goal is to get financial assistance quickly into the hands of those most in need in […]
Photo: Expanding the temporary school
Volunteers continue their work to make Sacred Hearts Mission in Kapalua a temporary home for Lahaina’s Sacred Hearts School that burned down on Aug. 8. Pictured are volunteer parents and Knights of Columbus installing flooring and assembling desks in space adjacent to the church on Oct. 16. Sacred Hearts principal Tonata Lolesio said she is […]
Photo: Public square rosary
Sisters of the Sacred Hearts and friends from the Vietnamese and Chuukese Catholic communities pray the rosary in front of Sacred Hearts Academy in Kaimuki Oct. 14. (Photo courtesy of Dann Ebina)
Mary Adamski: Oh, woeful holy land
VIEW FROM THE PEW Now is not the first time we Americans struggle to grasp what is happening on the other side of our planet. We’re watching the latest deadly chapter in a long-simmering religious, ethnic, territorial conflict fueled by the depth of human evil. Pride, envy, wrath, greed — traits which Catholic theology counts […]
Vatican confirms it will take Nicaraguan priests released from prison
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has confirmed that it has been asked and has agreed to receive 12 priests who had been detained in Nicaragua. “The Holy See has agreed; they will be received by an official of the Secretariat of State in the afternoon (Oct. 19) and housed […]
Chaminade recipient of $750,000 grant for higher education prison program
Chaminade University of Honolulu will receive a three-year $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand its Higher Education in Prison (HEP) program, which offers degrees in the humanities and liberal arts to those who are incarcerated, enabling them to leave prison with new identities, perspectives and goals to help them thrive in […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Bearing witness to Gods love
30TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Exodus 22:20-26; 1 Thessalonians 1:5c-10; Matthew 22:34-40 The Book of Exodus provides this weekend with its first reading. In ancient Jewish tradition, Exodus came from Moses. Therefore, in a most special way, it is the very word of God, since Moses represented God and was the link between God […]
Bishop to celebrate All Souls Mass in Kapalua
Bishop Larry will meet with parishioners of Lahaina’s Maria Lanakila Church and celebrate Mass at Sacred Hearts Church in Kapalua, Maui, on All Souls Day, Nov. 2, at 6 p.m. Maria Lanakila Church and rectory survived the Aug. 8 Lahaina wildfire, but the church remains inaccessible to the public during post-fire recovery efforts. Parish services […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: Observing All Hallows Eve
CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS In our Catholic tradition we don’t celebrate Halloween, we celebrate All Hallows Eve! Our “Catechism of the Catholic Church” teaches us that we should pray for the dead. “This teaching is also based on the practice of prayer for the dead, already mentioned in Sacred Scripture: Therefore [Judas Maccabeus] made atonement for […]
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