Windward Oahu’s Knights of Columbus Council 6307 is having a benefit Lenten fish fry, 5-7 p.m., Friday, March 8 at St. John Vianney Parish Hall, 920 Keolu Drive in Kailua. The event will raise money for students of St. John Vianney and St. Anthony Schools in Kailua who are in financial need, and for Ho‘ola […]
Father William M. Tulua: Former slave in line for sainthood
BLACK HISTORY MONTH February is Black History Month. To commemorate the month, I want to tell you the story of a young boy nicknamed “Gus.” During the Civil War, he fled slavery with his mother and two siblings from the Confederate state of Missouri to the free state of Illinois. In his new home of […]
Grand giveaway at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School family fair
Come one, come all for a day of food, fun, and fellowship at the Our Lady of Perpetual Help School’s Grand Giveaway and Family Fair 2019, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, March 2, on the school grounds at 91-1010 North Road in Ewa Beach. The grand giveaway grand prize is $1,500. The second prize […]
Photo: Prayer for the sick
Bishop Larry Silva prays over a parishioner during an evening Mass in the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, downtown Honolulu on Feb. 11 for the World Day of Prayer for the Sick. During the Mass, the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick was conferred on those with serious physical and mental illnesses. […]
Carolyn Woo: Let people know they matter
OUR GLOBAL FAMILY A favorite memory around this time of the year is the exchange of little valentine cards in our sons’ classrooms. I cannot remember when they became “too old” to feel comfortable with this practice, but it was such a tender gesture. I wonder what kids learned as they gave each other these […]
Gift to expand Mandarin immersion program
Maryknoll School president Perry Martin, left, and alumnus Douglas Ho on Feb. 12 hold a red Chinese envelope which has in it a check for $225,000, a grant from Ho, a 1960 Maryknoll graduate, funding an expansion of the school’s unique Chinese language immersion program. The men are surrounded by Maryknoll School kindergarten and first […]
Stewardship talk
Representatives from Hawaii parishes heard talks on the spiritual and practical aspects of stewardship and tithing from a variety of local and mainland speakers at the annual Diocesan Stewardship Day, Feb. 9, at Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish in Pearl City. The speakers in the top row, from left, are Father Andrew Kemberling, chairman […]
Cathedral’s capital campaign wins international stewardship award
The $15 million capital campaign to renovate the 175-year-old Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace received an award last fall from the International Catholic Stewardship Council, an organization that promotes Christian stewardship and Catholic philanthropy. The Parish Capital Campaign Materials award for excellence was presented to the cathedral’s capital campaign core committee members Mark […]
Talk story: It’s Lent: Rice Bowl time
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Lent is a favorable season for deepening our spiritual life through the means of sanctification offered us by the church: fasting, prayer and almsgiving … for renewing our encounter with Christ, living in his Word, in the sacraments and in our neighbor.” (Pope Francis) February began with tragic reports of two […]
Eva Andrade: A thousand cuts
HAWAII CATHOLIC CONFERENCE LEGISLATIVE REPORT Many people asked me what to expect for this year’s session of the State Legislature. I told them that after holding back physician-assisted suicide for 20 years, there wasn’t any equivalent big “moral” issue on the horizon. However, I warned them that I expected the outlook to be “death […]
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