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Hawaii bishop joins others in allowing St. Paddy’s Day corned beef, however …

03/09/2017 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Bishop Larry Silva may not be Irish, but he has gotten in the spirit of St. Paddy’s Day this year by issuing a “dispensation from abstinence from meat” for anyone whose celebration of the wearin’ of the green would be incomplete without a slab of corned beef. When St. […]

Filed Under: Catholic News Service, Local News Tagged With: Bishop Larry Silva, Lent, St. Patrick's Day

Bishop’s Circle follow-up appeal in time for Lenten almsgiving

03/09/2017 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald The follow-up to the 2016-2017 Bishop’s Circle campaign launched last November went out in the mail to Catholic donors last week in time for Lent. It is a self-contained mailer and return envelope, with a message from Bishop Larry Silva. “As Catholics, we are all part of a larger […]

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: Bishop Larry Silva, Bishop's circle

DEACON THOMAS PATRICK CONTRADES | 1949-2017: Husband and father ‘absolutely loved’ the diaconate

03/09/2017 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Kauai Deacon Thomas Patrick Contrades of Kapaa, whose big heart and selfless spirit won him the respect and love of his community, died on Feb. 24. He was 67 and a deacon for 10 years. Bishop Larry Silva presided at his funeral Mass March 4 at St. Raphael Church, […]

Filed Under: Local News, Obituary

Photo: Ode to Mary

03/09/2017 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

Students from Holy Family Catholic Academy were among a dozen performing groups at the 5th Annual Hawaii Catholic Schools Choral Festival, March 2 at the Clarence T.C. Ching Gymnasium in the Maryknoll Community Center. The theme of this year’s festival was “Ode to Mary.” (Photo courtesy Deborah Manog and Hawaii Catholic Schools office)

Filed Under: Local News, Photo Tagged With: Catholic schools

Diocese’s eighth deacon class receives ministry of acolyte

03/09/2017 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

Bishop Larry Silva conferred the ministry of acolyte on 11 candidates for the permanent diaconate, during a morning Mass Feb. 12 at St. Stephen Diocesan Center chapel. The men, who make up the diocese’s eighth class of aspirants to the diaconate, are in their fifth and final year of formation. The remaining months of 2017 […]

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: Bishop Larry Silva, Deacons

Dinner auction to benefit St. Theresa’s Hale Kau Kau

03/09/2017 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

Hale Kau Kau, a nonprofit meal program for the hungry, less fortunate and elderly who are homebound, sick and disabled in South Maui, will host its 18th annual benefit auction 3-8 p.m., Sunday, March 26, at the Fairmont Kea Lani in Wailea. Each year, Hale Kau Kau’s primary fundraiser provides approximately 30 percent of its […]

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: Hale Kau Kau, Neighbor islands

Sister Margaret Mollan, BVM | 1922-2017: Sister of Charity taught at St. Catherine, Kauai

03/09/2017 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Margaret Mollan, who taught on Kauai, died Feb. 26, 2017, at Marian Hall in Dubuque, Iowa. Burial was in Mount Carmel cemetery, Dubuque. She was 94 and a religious sister for 77 years. Sister Margaret taught at St. Catherine School in Kapaa, Kauai. She also taught elementary […]

Filed Under: Local News, Obituary Tagged With: Obituary, Religious

Commentary: Discipleship in the era of social media: Jesus doesn’t have a Twitter Account

03/09/2017 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

STEWARDSHIP By Melissa Pavlicek, Paul Pancho and Father Ed Popish, SSCC Special to the Herald “Follow me” (Mt. 9:9). Jesus invitation is not a request to follow him on Twitter. Jesus does not have a Twitter account. There are no daily twitter feeds or hashtags to follow him. There is no Facebook page where we […]

Filed Under: Columns, Local News Tagged With: stewardship

Congregation hosting seminarian fundraiser

03/09/2017 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

  The Congregation of the Sacred Hearts, U. S. Province, will host its first annual fundraiser for Sacred Hearts seminarians called “Funding Our Future.” Two events will support the fundraising efforts. Dinner with the Provincial Council, April 27, 6-9 p.m., Sacred Hearts Center, Kaneohe. Attendees include Province Advancement Council, honorary PAC member Cardinal Soane Patita […]

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: Congregation of the Sacred Hearts, Religious

Hawaii’s catechumens 2017

02/23/2017 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

West Honolulu Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, Honolulu Damour Danny Tammy Martin Jayden Takeuo Jdee Takeuo Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa, Honolulu Myah Aviguetero Shawne Balacan Nalani Dela Cruz Tehani Enfield Isaac Franklin John Theodore Franklin Lisa Aiko Parker Mel Rosario Ramos Doui Marceline Sewa Andrew Smith Josephyn Ve‘a Holy Family, Honolulu Caylen Corpus […]

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: catechumens, Lent, Rite of Election

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