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Local video to open International Christian Film Festival

04/07/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

The short video “Yehudah,” a Messiah origin story created this year by a local catechist and Bible study teacher who cast former and present students as actors in the project, has been selected to open the International Christian Film Festival April 28 in Orlando, Florida.

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: catechist, Yehudah

Celebrating the Sacred Triduum 2016

04/07/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

A child holds a candle as part of the Service of Light during the Easter Vigil March 26 at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa. Bishop Larry Silva washes the feet of a parishioner at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace on Holy Thursday, March 24. Veneration of the cross at the cathedral on […]

Filed Under: Photo Tagged With: Bishop Larry Silva, Sacred Triduum

Happy birthday, Ida, 104 years young

04/07/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

Adelaida Barboza Freitas (Ida) was born April 8, 1912, in Sprecklesville, Maui. Growing up on a sugar plantation, with 11 siblings was not easy, but it taught Ida many important lessons that have helped carry her through 104 years of life. Devotion to God and the church was always “number one,” followed by honesty, dependability, hard work, self-discipline, hospitality and, of course, a great sense of humor.

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: Birthday, profile

Pope at Easter: Reconcile with God, resurrect hope

04/07/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VATICAN CITY — Easter is a feast of hope, a celebration of God’s mercy and a call to pray for and assist all who suffer, Pope Francis said before giving his solemn blessing “urbi et orbi” (to the city and the world).

Filed Under: Catholic News Service Tagged With: Catholic News Service, Easter, Pope Francis

Kathleen T. Choi: The broken bell

04/07/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

Take any large group of people and test their intelligence. About 10 percent will score poorly. About 10 percent will do astonishingly well. The rest of us will cluster in the middle. Make a graph of the results, and you’ll see a drawing that looks like a bell.

Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Kathleen Choi

Murdered priest called ‘martyr of truth’

04/07/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

WORCESTER, Mass. — A Congolese priest serving in the U.S. said he believes his colleague, a Boston University alumnus gunned down in Congo, was “a martyr of the truth.”

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Africa, Catholic News Service

Parish raises $3.4 million for new Kapolei church

04/07/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

Catholics in West Oahu will soon have a big new church to call their spiritual home, thanks to the success of “Building Hope and Community for Generations,” St. Jude Church’s capital campaign.

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: parishes

Father William J. Byron SJ: What is God like?

04/07/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

There are two abiding and important religious questions, both significant but one more important than the other, that we tend to confuse in their order of importance. The first is, “What is God like?”

Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Catholic News Service, Father William J. Byron

‘Languages of Love’ presentation offered on Maui

04/07/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

WAILUKU — Worldwide Marriage Encounter will present “Languages of Love” — a session explaining the ways love is expressed — 9 a.m.-2 p.m. April 16 at the St. Anthony Church Center in Wailuku. Couples will have the opportunity to learn their primary love language and that of their spouses. The love languages include: words of […]

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: marriage, Neighbor islands

With Mother Angelica ‘God was full of surprises’

04/07/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

HANCEVILLE, Ala. — With Mother Angelica having been essentially bedridden for 15 years following a series of strokes in 2001, staff at the Eternal Word Television Network and members of her order, the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, had plenty of time to plan and prepare for her funeral.

Filed Under: Catholic News Service Tagged With: Catholic News Service, EWTN

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