By Maria Wiering Catholic News Service PAUL, Minn. — The folklore is well known: Need to sell a house? Bury a statue of St. Joseph in the yard. Maybe wrapped in a cloth. But it must be upside down, near the “For Sale” sign, facing the house. Or facing away from the house, near the […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: If we are faithful, eternal life awaits
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 5:7-9; John 12:20-33 The Book of Jeremiah is the source of this Lenten weekend’s first Scriptural reading. Jeremiah ranks among the greatest of the ancient Hebrew prophets. He wrote at a very difficult time for his people. Outside pressures had come to be so strong that the very […]
Sarah and David Herrmann: Life: more than a checklist, it’s a journey
EMBRACING FAMILY Alleluia! Praise God! 2020 is over! Easter is almost here! The COVID vaccine is here! While we eagerly said goodbye to 2020, we realized that we had not reached the goal of overcoming the coronavirus and having life return to some semblance of “normalcy.” As more and more people receive the vaccine, there […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Cleansing the temples that we are
WITNESS TO JESUS | THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT This is the prepared text of the homily by Bishop Larry Silva for the Third Sunday of Lent delivered March 6 and 7 at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, Honolulu, and St. Ann Church, Kaneohe. We all know that a temple is a place […]
Cathedral basilica Mass will commemorate 500 Years of Christianity in the Philippines
Milestone of faith: ‘Gifted to Give’ By Father Edmundo N. Barut Jr. Special to the Herald As we gather for the 500 Years of Christianity in the Philippines — Hawaii Celebration, it is with joy that we recall the Philippine archipelago being discovered by Europeans on March 16, 1521, because thereafter was the story of […]
A great blessing, a great joy
Msgr. Gary Secor celebrates 10 years as vicar general and more than 40 years in service as a priest of the Diocese of Honolulu By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald If not a priest then maybe a pilot. That’s what Msgr. Gary Secor in an alternative life might have chosen as his profession because he’s […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Doing the riskiest thing imaginable
WITNESS TO JESUS | FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT This is the prepared text of the homily by Bishop Larry Silva for the First Sunday in Lent, celebrated Feb. 20 and 21 along with Rites of Election at St. Catherine Church, Kapaa, the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, Honolulu, and the Co-Cathedral of St. […]
Diocese offers ‘naming’ ritual for miscarried infants
By Jayne Ragasa-Mondoy Special to the Herald “Every human life, from the moment of conception until death, is sacred because the human person has been willed for its own sake in the image and likeness of the living and holy God.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2319) We sat with each other and wept. Eleven […]
Last of newest deacon class ordained
Bishop Larry Silva ordained two Kauai men permanent deacons on Feb. 19 at Immaculate Conception Church in Lihue. Alejandrino A. Ragasa Jr. and Averiet A. Soto were the last in the diocese’s newest class of 13 to receive the laying on of hands. Deacon Ragasa is a parishioner at Immaculate Conception. Soto is a member […]
Office of Worship director leaving isles for California
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Deacon Modesto Cordero, who as director of the diocesan Office of Worship led Hawaii’s clergy and lay worshippers through the complexities of pandemic-safe liturgical protocols, is leaving the islands with his wife Nydia Aileen at the end of May for a new home and new job in southern California. […]
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