VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald It was on Halloween night, as I was in my third year of teaching in Cincinnati, that I got a call asking if I would go to Nigeria for three years. I said, “What?!” Struggling to discern, I did two things. First, […]
Talk story: The desert speaks
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “We can’t allow more tragedies like these. They cannot be repeated … Innocents have died because we have done everything to keep them from finding a dignified life … The desert speaks, and we can hear the shouts of the land telling us that our policies have consequences. (Bishop Mark Seitz […]
Heralding back: March 22, 2019
NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — March 21, 1969 G.I. Pen Pals These students (pictured left) are among the leaders of Holy Cross first graders who write to G.I.s in Vietnam. They are (left to right) Cheryl Carveiro, Keven Dela Cruz, Cynthia Michael, Carolyn Carveiro, Lisa Huntsinger, and Richard Carveiro. The first grade […]
Letters to the Herald: March 22, 2019
Please tell me about Hawaii I am writing to you as part of a class project for the novel “The Watsons Go to Birmingham.” My classmates and I are contacting newspapers across the country in a state we want to learn more about. I chose Hawaii, because I think that it would be very fun […]
Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: March 22, 2019
How is your Lent progressing, my friends? I hope it’s been a spiritually renewing time so far. I have several more Lenten questions for you to answer. 1) Catholic Hawaii Which Big Island parish is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its current church building over the weekend of March 22-24? a) Our Lady of Lourdes, […]
Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: March 8, 2019
My quizzical friends, Since it’s Lent, I am fasting from jokes in my quiz intro. What a sacrifice! But I do have several more Lenten questions for you to answer. What did you give up or are you doing for Lent? (Please don’t say this quiz.) 1) Catholic Hawaii Bishop Silva recently traveled to what […]
Heralding back: March 8, 2019
NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — March 7, 1969 Layman distributes communion William C. Blesch, a layman, distributes Holy Communion at Polk State School and Hospital, near Erie, Pa., under terms of permission granted by the Congregation of the Sacraments, thought to be unique, at least in the United States. The chaplain at […]
Bishop Larry Silva: You don’t have to be perfect
WITNESS TO JESUS | FIFTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME Here is the prepared text of the homily for the Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Feb. 9-10, delivered at St. John the Apostle and Evangelist Church, Mililani, for a Mass of marriage convalidations, and at St. John Vianney Church, Kailua. Perhaps you have heard the […]
2019 Lenten regulations for the Diocese of Honolulu
FASTING In the dioceses in the United States, Catholics aged 18 through 59 are bound to fast on both Ash Wednesday (March 6) and Good Friday (April 19). To fast means to consume one full meal a day at most, although taking of other, smaller quantities of food at the other customary mealtimes is permitted. […]
Sister Miriam Joseph Teresi, Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities: Morning grounds: coffee and prayer
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, O.P. Hawaii Catholic Herald I taught school for 24 years, worked in the parish for 26, and ministered in the hospital for 13 years. Working in the parish, my mornings were filled with visiting the elderly; my evenings were busy with RCIA class, working with the […]
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