Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Photo: For the care of seminarians

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Rhoda Hiro of the Young Ladies Institute of Hawaii on Feb 28 presents Father Bill Shannon, diocesan Director of Seminarians, with a $2,630 check to help support the education of Hawaii’s diocesan seminarians. The check presentation was made at a luncheon after the 8:45 a.m. Mass Father Shannon celebrated at St. Ann Parish in Kaneohe […]

Photo: Valley Isle music

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Island composer Joe Camacho, left, accompanies guest performer Jesse Manibusan at VILAC, the Valley Isle Liturgy and Arts Conference at St. Anthony Parish, Wailuku, March 3-5. The event, a spin-off from BILAC, which started on the Big Island and is now hosted by the Marianists on Oahu, also featured composer Father Michael Joncas, Joe Farias […]

To build a ‘culture of life’

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Building a “culture of life” in the Islands, in which human dignity is respected in all its “beauty” from conception to natural death, begins with a solid understanding of church teachings and a proactive attitude, said the keynote speaker at the diocese’s inaugural Catholics Reaffirming Life Symposium.

Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz

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Easter is just a hop, skip and jump away, quizzicals. I hope your journey through Lent this year has deepened your faith. Looking forward to celebrating “Resurrection Day” with you — and seeing how you do on the following quiz. 1) Saints Which of the following is true about St. Ansovinus, whose feast day is […]

Office for Social Ministry: Hearing stories of hope from around the world

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In this Jubilee Year of Mercy, Catholic Relief Services is offering a mobile device app for its Lenten Rice Bowl program that focuses on hope. The CRS Rice Bowl app provides a daily prayer reflection, brief weekly videos telling “stories of hope” from countries around the world, recipes from these countries and a “calculator” to help compute your Lenten almsgiving.

Photos: 24 Hours for the Lord

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Faithful in the Diocese of Honolulu joined other Catholics around the world in “24 Hours for the Lord,” an initiative for the Year of Mercy which Pope Francis called to be celebrated March 4-5. At the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, the 24 hours of adoration, reconciliation, prayer, praise and worship started at […]

At Our Lady of Good Counsel School, reading has its rewards and ‘penalties’

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By Ginger Kamisugi Special to the Herald Reading — besides enlightening, instructing and delighting the reader — has a number of additional fun and unexpected rewards at Our Lady of Good Counsel School in Pearl City. Each year, school librarian Heidi Valencia challenges the students to read a certain number of books for her annual […]