Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Scrub Bucket offering women’s retreat

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Scrub Bucket Gospel Ministries is offering the women’s weekend contemplative retreat, “Father Knows Best,” 6:30 p.m., Friday, March 26 to 2 p.m., Sunday, March 28, at St. Anthony Retreat Center in Kalihi. The cost of $240 includes private room and bath with air conditioning and Saturday eve Liturgy. Meals will be catered. All COVID-19 guidelines […]

Diocese hosting presentation via Zoom on Shroud of Turin

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  The diocesan Office of Faith Formation and Religious Education is offering a free presentation via Zoom on the Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, 9:30-11 a.m., Feb. 27. “Faith and Reason: The Compelling Science of the Shroud of Turin” is a Magis Center presentation given by […]

Five-part webinar helps parents help teens discover their dignity

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Need help talking to your teen about sensitive topics? The diocesan Office of Faith Formation and Religious Education may be able to help. In collaboration with Hamau I Loko, the office is offering “Discover the Dignity (for Parents Raising Teens),” a series of five Thursday Zoom sessions, 4-5 p.m., Feb. 18 and 24, and March […]

‘40 Days for Life’ spring campaign underway

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Deacon Gary Streff of the diocesan Respect Life office is inviting Hawaii Catholics to join him and thousands of others around the world in the 40 Days for Life 2021 campaign, which began Feb. 17 and continues through March 28. Participation includes prayer and fasting alone or with family and friends, and joining public prayer […]

Bishops’ worship committee drops ‘one’ word from the collect prayer

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald The word “one” has been dropped from the collect, the short prayer recited at Mass by the priest celebrant immediately before the first reading. The change corrects the collect’s concluding “doxology,” the words of praise that always end the prayer. Instead of “… in the unity of the Holy […]

Sarah and David Herrmann: Zooming through Lent

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EMBRACING FAMILY Wouldn’t it be nice if Lent “zoomed” by this year? Forty days seems like an eternity when we are sacrificing! We’ve had 12 months of waiting and praying thanks to COVID-19! Isn’t that enough?! For those around the world who live a life of constant suffering, they would be grateful if they only […]

3 Hawaii island deacons ordained

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Bishop Larry Silva ordained three Big Islanders, members of the Cohort Nine diocesan permanent deacon class, Jan. 30 at St. Michael Church in Kailua-Kona. Raised to the diaconate at the mid-morning Mass were Sandor Hernandez Morales of St. Michael Parish, Charles W. Mapa of St. Theresa Parish, Mountain View, and George G. Wood of Our […]

Housing is healthcare

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HOPE Services director invites lawmakers to join her in standing up for the homeless By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald The talk was one of confidence and hope, delivered to a congregation considerably thinned by social distancing. It was also an invitation. “I need your help in showing compassion for the vulnerable, to advocating for […]