Don’t you just love the beauty of Eastertide, Quizzers?! God is good! All the time! My quizzes are good! Most of the time! 1) APOSTLES Who did the apostles choose to replace Judas? a) Lazarus b) Matthias c) Barabbas d) Irenaeus 2) LITURGICAL YEAR The seventh Sunday of Easter this year celebrates what event? a) […]
Sister Miriam Teresa Yorita, MICM: God is so infinitely great
Viriditas2: Soul Greening Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald “I didn’t plan it this way,” I tell people when they ask how I found my path. “But looking back, it feels like Providence was guiding each step.” I grew up in a family that valued hard work and stability. As Japanese […]
Jenna Marie Cooper: Communion response is only ‘amen’
Question corner Q: Is it ever acceptable to say something other than “amen” when receiving Communion? Would “thank you,” “he’s alive” or even “hallelujah!” ever work? (Indiana) A: The short answer is no, the one and only appropriate response when receiving holy Communion is to say “amen” after the priest or Eucharistic minister says “the […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: God’s blueprint for us: Like Jesus, love others
Sixth Sunday of Easter Acts 8:5-8, 14-17; 1 Peter 3:15-18; John 14:15-21 Once again this Easter season, the Acts of the Apostles furnishes the first reading. In the readings of the weekends earlier in this season, the identity of the apostles clearly has been established. In a critically important way, the apostles exercised the very […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: Calling all saints
Catholic Social Tips As Catholics we learn of the powerful presence of the holy men and women who comprise the Communion of Saints. This body serves as a well to draw from when we need protection or help. The devastating flooding and damage from March’s Kona low storms stripped many people of their homes and […]
Christina Capecchi: The gift of shared delight
Twenty Something In the end, after two days of breathless anticipation, the white smoke shared the stage with a seagull. The whole world was abuzz. An American pope! A seagull! With so many eyes trained on the same chimney, the bird had appeared in exactly the right spot at exactly the right moment, amusing spectators […]
Laura Kelly Fanucci: With faith, we are never alone
Faith at Home Family life is hard. In case no one has affirmed that for you lately, let me be the one. Whether you’re in the stage of diapers and bottles, wiping faces and losing sleep or whether you’re worrying about the children who have grown, the now-adults making their stumbling way through a suffering […]
Elizabeth Scalia: Meditating on Mark
It Is Good Because my Lent took a nosedive about two-thirds of the way through, I am still immersed in a project I undertook in order to get my spiritual groove back: writing out the Gospel of Mark, in longhand. It has been a very interesting, instructive and spiritual enlivening experience and I recommend the […]
Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace: The road to renewal
The historic Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace has been closed for a year as an extensive renewal continues By Lisa Dahm Hawaii Catholic Herald The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in downtown Honolulu is in the final phase of a years-long total physical renewal — just in time to serve as […]
Talk Story: ‘Even just one of these children’
Office for Social Ministry “Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.” (Mt 18:5) In the bright light of Easter, when the church proclaims that life has overcome death, we are invited to look more closely at where that new life is most fragile — and most revealing. This year, Pope Leo XIV […]