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 […]
Mary Adamski: Consulting groundhogs and stars
VIEW FROM THE PEW “I don’t get this business about the groundhog; is it sacred or what?” I got that somewhat sarcastic comment from an island-born acquaintance who delights in challenging me to answer for all cultural quirks, puzzling rituals and inexplicable superstitions of the entire population of the entire continental USA. “And yet you […]
Official notices: Feb. 22, 2019
Bishop’s calendar Bishop’s Schedule [Events indicated will be attended by Bishop’s delegate] February 25, 10:00 am, Meeting of the Bishops of the San Francisco Metropolitan Province, San Francisco, California. February 28, 10:00 am, Diocesan Department Heads, St. Stephen Diocesan Center (SSDC), Kaneohe. March 2, 10:00 am, Diocesan Review Board, Chancery, downtown Honolulu. March 5, 9:30 […]
Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: Feb. 22, 2019
Dear readers, By the time you read our next quiz, it’ll be Lent! So to get you prepared, we’re finishing off this quiz with some Lenten questions. But, first, another joke. What did God tell Moses when he had a headache? “Take two tablets and call me in the morning.” 1) Trivia How did the […]
Talk story: It’s Lent: Rice Bowl time
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Lent is a favorable season for deepening our spiritual life through the means of sanctification offered us by the church: fasting, prayer and almsgiving … for renewing our encounter with Christ, living in his Word, in the sacraments and in our neighbor.” (Pope Francis) February began with tragic reports of two […]
Bishop Larry Silva: On the recent news regarding abortion access
WITNESS TO JESUS Last October I visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. Like the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., it documents the horrors of the Nazi regime in its crimes against humanity, especially the six million Jews it put to death. Its purpose is not to keep the evil alive but to remind […]
Father Atonio ‘Niko’ Falaniko, diocesan priest: All around and all the above
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald You can find me everywhere. Some days I say Mass here at the cathedral basilica. On Fridays and Sundays, I say Mass at the Carmelite Monastery. Sometimes on Sundays, I also say Mass at Queen’s Medical Center, or at various parishes. Not […]
Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: Feb. 8, 2019
Friends, Roman Catholics, countrymen, Lend me your ears and your intellect as you take this issue’s quiz! And speaking of Romans, here’s a joke for you. What do you call a sleepwalking nun? A roamin’ Catholic! Harold 1) Saints You might think of Feb. 14 as Valentine’s Day but it also marks this memorial feast […]
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