YOUCAT*: “Man should honor the Creator in other creatures and treat them carefully and responsibly. Man, animals and plants have the same Creator who called them into being out of love. Therefore a love of animals is profoundly human.” [CCC 344, 354] According to Genesis, by the end of the sixth day, the land, sea […]
Christina Capecchi: An epic love story atop the family tree
It had an echo of Nicholas Sparks to it, but it was real life, and the story went viral: an Ohio couple married for 73 years died just 28 hours apart. Reporters across the globe culled bits of Hollywood drama from the marriage, chronicling a young Joseph Auer surviving the horrors of D-Day and missing […]
Manaolana | Makana’s helpful hints: Doin’ work
“Doin’ work!” In basketball, that phrase describes someone taking over the game and getting things done on their own. Since the “showtime” days of the Lakers to today’s “Big 3” (Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, Tim Duncan; LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love; Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Andrew Bogut, etc.) the team game is being overshadowed […]
Manaolana | Lisa Gomes: For what purpose are we here?
Church teaching explained to you YOUCAT*: We are here on earth in order to know and to love God, to do good according to his will, and to go someday to heaven. [CCC 1-3, 358] New Year = Fresh Start. Like so many others, I spent the last few weeks of December thinking about my […]
Manaolana | Makana Aiona: LOL
Exciting ways to enhance young adult ministry Again my inspiration comes from my wife and one of her favorites, the “now on her way to heaven” Sister Anne Bryan Smollin. She taught Stephanie a very important lesson: laughter is powerful! Sister Anne was great at using humor to open people up to God’s graces. “We […]
Manaolana | Sidebar: Dec. 5, 2014
Quote “We’re not going to end hunger in this world if we don’t figure out a way to be more productive in the agricultural sector globally … We can’t do that without women, especially since they’re 43 percent of the agricultural labor force.” | Victoria Stanley, a senior rural development and land specialist at the […]
Manaolana | It’s ‘A Nun’s Life’: Website becomes a growing vocations ministry
WASHINGTON — What started out as a blog at a time when few people knew about blogs and hardly anyone was familiar with Twitter is a living and growing ministry run by two women religious who are Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Sisters Julie Vieira and Maxine Kollasch oversee their website “A […]
Manaolana | Makana’s helpful hints: Remember the pauses
Wow! Thanksgiving is gone and there are only three weeks until Christmas begins. Last week’s Black Friday sales actually started the day before Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations and sales popped up even before that! It really feels like corporate America (save a handful of companies) is trying to hide Thanksgiving! Now, I hope you caught […]
Manaolana | Lisa’s catechism corner: Who can forgive sins?
YOUCAT*: God alone can forgive sins. Jesus could say “Your sins are forgiven” (Mk 2:5) only because he is the Son of God. And priests can forgive sins in Jesus’ place only because Jesus has given them that authority. [1441-1442] We’ve just entered the Advent season, a time of joyous anticipation, but also a time […]
Manaolana | Christina Capecchi: Light the candles, pour the wine
Grace Osterbauer was a 24-year-old bride-to-be when she took her first cake-decorating class, and the impulse compelling the Texas beauty to make that $35 investment remains today, now a 40-year-old mother of eight. “I wanted to make the Catholic events of our lives super special,” she said. Grace and her husband, Paul, are both frugal, […]
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