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 […]
EPIC evolution
In its 10th year, the Hawaii Catholic ministry for young adults continues to grow By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald On Kuhio Day, a group of about 20 young adults and a few children gathered on the covered lanai next to EPIC Ministry’s new Kaneohe headquarters. They chatted, grilled hot dogs, said grace, and loaded […]
Pope prays that Easter joy breaks through gloom of sin
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — On a bright spring morning, Pope Francis prayed that Christians would experience the joy of Easter and allow Christ’s resurrection to be “the light that illumines the darkness and the gloom in which, all too often, our world finds itself enveloped.” […]
Bishop Larry Silva: This Easter light of mine
WITNESS TO JESUS | EASTER This is the prepared text of the homily by Bishop Larry Silva for the Easter Vigil and Easter Sunday, April 8 and 9, delivered at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa in Honolulu The liturgical directives are very clear: The Easter Vigil is to be celebrated at night, after darkness has […]
You are the pa‘akai of the earth
On Kauai, many generations have been harvesting salt in the old Hawaiian way By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald HANAPEPE — On the southwestern coast of Kauai, in Hanapepe, a small number of families have been harvesting salt from the ocean for thousands of years. The traditional Hawaii method of “pa‘akai” (“solidified sea”) is a […]
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