St. Anthony Retreat Center in verdant Kalihi Valley is offering a one-day retreat, “Praying with the Saints” 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Aug. 25, at Rose Hill in the retreat center at 3351 Kalihi Street in Honolulu. “There are many ways to pray!” states the retreat flyer. “Come discover with Sacred Hearts Sister Marie Lemertand Malulani […]
Day symposium to address suicide, human trafficking, other life issues
The second annual Life Symposium, “Na Mo‘olelo Ola: Living Stories,” 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Aug. 17, at the KROC Center in Kapolei will feature speakers on difficult life topics including suicide, human trafficking, death and dying, and homelessness. The event will address these issues through the lens of Scripture, church teaching, and personal testimonies. The day […]
Training future priests is expensive
Annual collection needs more support to cover Hawaii seminarian education By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Any parent who has saved or paid for a child’s higher education knows that learning doesn’t come cheap. That remains the case for the Diocese of Honolulu to support its seminarians through the coursework and degrees that will make […]
SISTER MARIE TANG OF THE CHILD JESUS | 1924-2018
Quiet, joyful Carmelite was one of Hawaii’s original seven By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald “A time to mourn …” Sister Elizabeth DeJesus, reading from the famous passage from Ecclesiastes at the funeral Mass of fellow Carmelite Sister Marie Tang, followed that line with an emotional pause, before continuing, “… and a time to dance.” […]
Of the group that arrived in 1973 from Hong Kong, one sister remains
The death of Sister Marie Tang of the Child Jesus leaves only one of the original seven sisters, Sister Agnella Iu, plus two local vocations who joined the community in recent years, Sister Elizabeth DeJesus and Sister Therese Wilson. Bishop John J. Scanlan invited the Carmelite group to Hawaii from Hong Kong in 1973. The […]
Yearly seminarian retreat: Soaking in the solitude of Kalaupapa
For the past two summers, Diocese of Honolulu vocations director Father Rheo Ofalsa and Bishop Larry Silva have traveled with diocesan seminarians to the Kalaupapa peninsula for a five-day retreat. The trip includes Mass, prayer time and recreation. It also allows the seminarians to deepen their spiritual formation and their knowledge of Bishop Silva and […]
Pregnancy center free speech ruling seen as good news for Hawaii case
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald The U.S. Supreme Court 5-4 ruling June 26 that a California law that placed requirements on crisis pregnancy centers that oppose abortion violated the First Amendment has pleased a Hawaii lawyer fighting a similar Hawaii law. “Everybody in the country ought to be celebrating” the court’s decision, attorney James […]
He kept diocesan center ‘bright, clean, neat’ for 24 years
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Romeo Alejandro, a maintenance manager for 24 years at St. Stephen Diocesan Center in Kaneohe, will no longer be parking his white truck every day under the huge common mango tree on the Kailua side of the property. He retired on June 29. Alejandro does not look his age […]
A childlike purity of heart every contemplative strives for
By Father Michael Owens Special to the Herald I’ve known the Discalced Carmelite nuns of the Carmel of the Holy Trinity monastery on the grounds of St. Stephen Diocesan Center since I entered the seminary there in 1975. I celebrated my first Mass with them the day after I was ordained. We’ve become so close […]
Talk story: An enlightening visit to the U.S./Mexico border
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Pope Francis has often talked about going to the peripheries and encountering the lives of the people that we meet there. Never in my wildest dreams did I believe that I would be able to do it in such a tangible way here in our country this weekend, to literally go […]
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