At St. Anthony Church in Kalihi a volunteer sorts through clothing donations. The volunteer opens a cardboard box of clothing. In that box is an old robe and in a pocket of that robe the volunteer finds a small pendant of a police badge and more than $1,000 cash in various denominations. The Kalihi parish […]
Heralding back: Jan. 3, 2014
NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Jan. 3, 1964 Players in the forthcoming production, “The Damien Letter,” discuss their various roles between rehearsals. Gertrude Roberts, Marjorie Brim, and Helen Topham as Franciscan nuns, talk with John Kernell as Father Damien. This dramatic production, based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s defense of Father Damien, was […]
Bishop invites church leaders to prayer for Christian unity
Bishop Larry Silva’s office sent an invitation to 96 Christian church leaders in Hawaii to join him in a Taize Prayer around the Cross 7 p.m., Jan. 24, at the University of Hawaii’s Newman Center to commemorate the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Jan. 18-25. The bishop is proposing the Taize Prayer, named […]
Bishop Larry Silva’s 2013 Christmas Message
Who asked God to become a human being anyway? Certainly not those who praise God but still like to keep him in a safe place, away from any interference he might have in their daily lives. Certainly not those who see God’s law as oppressive of their human freedom and who lock him away in […]
Catholic school teacher’s aide writes ‘something new’ about an old value
Ginger Kamisugi, a teacher’s aide at Our Lady of Good Counsel School in Pearl City, reads to students her new book, “Something Different, Something New,” Dec. 4. (HCH photo | Darlene Dela Cruz) A new children’s book written by a teacher’s aide at Our Lady of Good Counsel School in Pearl City aims to […]
Christmas carol favorites
Childhood memories, soaring notes, haunting melodies, joyful lyrics? Why do some Christmas songs make our hearts quiver and our souls melt? The Hawaii Catholic Herald asked a few friends to name their most favorite Christmas carol and to explain what made it special. Here are their responses compiled and gently edited. Karen Kung, diocesan human […]
Coordinating Christmas angels: Catholic Charities’ ‘Holidays from the Heart’ connects the giver with the receiver
Students from Star of the Sea School look at the ornaments on their “Giving Tree,” which have written on them Christmas wish items for Catholic Charities Hawaii clients and others in the community. Students and parishioners have given generous donations to fulfill these holiday needs. A new Catholic Charities program geared toward Volunteer Services and […]
OBITUARY: Benedictine Father Timothy Ottman served Hawaii in parishes, monastery for 30 years
Benedictine Father Timothy M. Ottman, who came to Hawaii more than 30 years ago to work as a parish priest for a decade before retiring at the Benedictine Monastery in Waialua, died Dec. 5 in a Waialua foster care home. He was 92. He had been in religious life, first as a Trappist monk, since […]
Mary Adamski: The Lord is coming and the house is clean. Halleluia!
The house always had to be shining clean for Christmas and since Mom ruled, we the children took the vacuum cleaner nozzle into the deepest corners and the dustcloths to the tops of all those many framed things on the walls. That wasn’t quite going where no kid had been before, but it was shifting […]
Kathleen T. Choi: Less aw, more awe
I have a quarrel with nativity scenes. St. Francis created the first Christmas crèche to encourage our devotion to Christ. He put real straw in a real manger and brought a real ox and donkey to a rocky crevice in the hillside. They illustrated his sermon on poverty and humility. In today’s nativity scenes, the […]
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