FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY Sirach 3:2-7, 12-14; Colossians 3:12-20; Luke 2:41-52 This weekend, the Sunday between Christmas and New Year’s, the church celebrates the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. The Book of Sirach supplies the first reading. Sirach was composed in an effort to reinforce trust in, and loyalty […]
Talk story: Celebrating ohana at Christmas
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Brothers and sisters: Put on heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another … And let the peace of Christ control your hearts, and provide the peace into which you were also called in one body.” (Col 3:12-15 — Feast of the Holy Family) […]
Brett Robinson: Matters of life and death
THE THEOLOGY OF TECHNOLOGY Of the many technologies that have changed the course of culture, contraception may be the most pernicious. In his landmark encyclical “Humanae Vitae,” St. Paul VI foresaw that the rise of artificial birth control methods would also lead to more marital infidelity, the lowering of moral standards and the objectification of […]
Talk Story: Open wide our hearts
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God.” (1 Jn 3:1) Advent is a season calling us to make straight the paths in our world so we can receive the coming of Emmanuel, God with us, in the form of a […]
Christina Capecchi: This side of heaven
TWENTY SOMETHING It all started with a lost birth certificate. The Holy Spirit was at work that day and hasn’t slowed down since. My aunt Jan has always known she was adopted, and the many mysteries surrounding that reality had never haunted her. She raised her daughters near St. Paul, Minn., her husband’s hometown, and […]
Talk story: Providing for holiday harvest
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “I am working for God and do so cheerfully.” (St. Marianne Cope of Molokai) These inspiring words were printed on a beautiful magnet given out at a Mass celebrated Nov. 8 by Bishop Larry Silva at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace commemorating the saint’s arrival in Hawaii 135 […]
Sister Mary Mark Berdin, Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary: My middle name is survivor
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Mali Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald From being assigned from the Philippines to Kauai to Oahu in the 1970s, to Africa in the 1980s and back and forth between the Philippines, Oahu and San Francisco, returning to Oahu in the years after, I think sometimes that my middle […]
Father Eugene Hemrick: Celebrating Advent to the fullest
THE HUMAN SIDE How might we celebrate our best Advent? What might we do to experience its tranquility, while at the same time its intensity? Philosopher Josef Pieper would suggest spending contemplative moments during the season. And how might this happen? Some time ago, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington had […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: May a Lutheran receive Catholic Eucharist? Can you confess online?
QUESTION CORNER Q: One of my sisters who is Lutheran recently moved to an area where there is no Lutheran church, so she started attending Mass at a nearby Catholic parish. She has been receiving the Eucharist at Mass even though she is not Catholic. She says that she asked the Catholic pastor and he […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: We all shall meet Christ
FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT Jeremiah 33:14-16; 1 Thessalonians 3:12-4:2; Luke 21:25-28, 34-36 This weekend begins the church’s year. Usually Advent is seen simply as a time to prepare for the feast of Christmas, and in the current American culture, a tempered, penitential season is not in order. Actually, the season is for us a new […]
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