OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “The Virgin Mary of Guadalupe wants to meet us too as she one day met Juan Diego on the hill of Tepeyac. She wants to stay with us. She begs us to allow her to be our mother, to open our lives to her Son, Jesus and to welcome his message […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Is a funeral Mass required? Do Masses have to include moments of silence?
QUESTION CORNER Q: My wife and I are in our mid-70s and have bought cemetery plots and made our funeral arrangements. We selected immediate burial, without any rites, ceremony or embalming. But after talking to family members, we are worried that perhaps, in not having a Catholic funeral Mass, we are sinning gravely and making […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: A savior is born for us
CHRISTMAS Isaiah 52:7-10; Hebrews 1:1-6; John 1:1-18 The liturgy includes several Masses for Christmas. These readings are those assigned for Mass during the day. The third section of Isaiah supplies the first lesson. To understand the reading, it helps to be aware of the historical context surrounding the composition of this part of Isaiah. God’s […]
Bishop Larry Silva: We can easily be skeptics
WITNESS TO JESUS | THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT This is the prepared text of the homily delivered by Bishop Silva on Dec. 11, the Third Sunday of Advent, at St. Damien of Molokai Parish, Kaunakakai, with the installation of its pastor. Another bishop recently related a conversation he had with a young man. The […]
Bishop Larry Silva: A bond that can never be broken
WITNESS TO JESUS | 32ND SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME Here is the prepared text of the homily by Bishop Larry Silva for the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, delivered Nov. 6 at the Mass for the Diocesan Congress of Filipino Catholic Clubs, Wailua, Kauai. Do you know what the word for “wives” is in Spanish? […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: How do I keep the Lord’s day holy?
QUESTION CORNER Q: I write to ask for guidelines on the Third Commandment — keeping holy the Lord’s day. I do not consider some of the things that I do to be work — cooking, for example, minor cleanups, mowing, trimming, weeding. Does the church look upon all chores as work? I find it very […]
Laura Kelly Fanucci: Jesus was a teenager, too
FAITH AT HOME If I asked you to imagine Jesus’ childhood, you’d likely picture him as a baby in the manger. But have you ever considered that Christ was once a teenager, too? In this season that sings of “the little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes,” we can forget that the incarnation means Jesus […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Time to fortify Christian resolve
THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT Isaiah 35:1-6a, 10; James 5:7-10; Matthew 11:2-11 The Book of Isaiah is the source of this weekend’s first reading. Isaiah was between a rock and a hard place, so to speak. He realized that unwise alliances, and behavior that forgot God, put the Hebrews’ kingdom of Judah at great risk. The […]
Sarah and David Herrmann: How am I supposed to prepare for the coming of Jesus at Christmas?
EMBRACING FAMILY Many parents ask us questions, and we share faith-based parenting advice, based on Love and Logic and the Preventive System of St. John Bosco (Reason, Religion, Loving Kindness). We’d like to share some of these with you. It seems like there is so much to prepare during December: school plays, parties, presents, presents, […]
Father Daniel Chowning, Order of Discalced Carmelites: Prayer: friendship with Jesus
VIRIDITAS2: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong OP Hawaii Catholic Herald When I was about 21 years of age, I found a book with a very simple method of meditating on the Gospels. Thus, I began practicing meditation on my own. From this experience, I was moved to read the biography of St. […]
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