OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “The Samaritan acts with true mercy: he binds up the man’s wounds, transports him to an inn, personally takes care of him, and provides for his upkeep. All this teaches us that compassion, love, is not a vague sentiment, but rather means taking care of the other to the point of […]
Commentary: Discipleship in the era of social media: Jesus doesn’t have a Twitter Account
STEWARDSHIP By Melissa Pavlicek, Paul Pancho and Father Ed Popish, SSCC Special to the Herald “Follow me” (Mt. 9:9). Jesus invitation is not a request to follow him on Twitter. Jesus does not have a Twitter account. There are no daily twitter feeds or hashtags to follow him. There is no Facebook page where we […]
Father Santhosh Thottankara, Congregation of the Sacred Hearts: The gifts of family prayer
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald In my family circle there are 24 priests and one bishop. We belong to different congregations, some being in the foreign missions and others belonging to the diocese. My older brother, Father Viju, for example, is a diocesan priest and the secretary […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Rejoice in the light of Jesus
SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT Genesis 12:1-4a; 2 Timothy 1:8a-10; Matthew 17:1-9 The Book of Genesis is the source of this weekend’s first biblical reading. As its name implies, Genesis reveals the divine origin of life and the divine plan in the forming of the Hebrew race. First and foremost, Genesis is a splendidly vivid revelation […]
Christina Capecchi: Tending to our common home
TWENTY SOMETHING The old farmers used to say you should leave a field better than you found it. Sometimes that called for heavy lifting. Other times it just meant picking up a rock as you crossed and placing it at the field’s edge. That counsel stuck with Amy Hereford, who grew up on a 10-acre […]
Mary Adamski: LOL
VIEW FROM THE PEW The perfect, definitive model for a meaningful Lent. I’ve got it. Hang in there, I’ll share it. In my first take of this column, I took hundreds of words to get to the punchline. Wise and witty words they were. Sure to lose readers the more I wandered on through my […]
Effie Caldarola: Our refugee family
ON THE JOURNEY On a recent Sunday, I delivered fresh produce to the Syrian refugee family my Catholic community sponsored this year. As I parked outside the apartment building, eager little faces were watching for me from the second-floor window, and soon the three oldest children of the family dashed from the door below to […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: One cannot serve two masters
8TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Isaiah 49:14-15; 1 Corinthians 4:1-5; Matthew 6:24-34 For its first reading this weekend, the church presents a rather short selection from the final part of the Book of Isaiah. By the time this passage was written, the Jews, long trapped in exile in Babylon, had returned home. The conquest of […]
Father Joseph Diaz, diocesan priest: ‘You say it best when you say nothing at all’
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald Usually when people come to me with questions or personal challenges, I tell them that there is no difference between being a priest and a lay person in that regard as we all have our doubts and questions. What is important however, […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: May I go shopping on Sunday?
QUESTION CORNER Q: Genesis 2:3 says that, after creating the universe, God “rested from all the work he had done.” Since the church has always viewed the seventh day (Sunday) as holy, a day of rest and worship, is it right to go shopping on Sunday (which means that store clerks have to work on […]
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