If you love snapping and sharing on social media mobile pics of your delicious dinners, tremendous travels, Island panoramas and memories with loved ones, you’ve tapped into a great way to be mindful of God’s blessings.
Manaolana | LIsa Gomes: How should we treat the environment?
LISA’S CATECHISM CORNER YOUCAT*: We fulfill God’s commission with regard to creation when we care for the earth, with its biological laws, its variety of species, its natural beauty and its dwindling resources, as a living space, and preserve it, so that future generations also can live well on earth. [2415] I was sitting in […]
Manaolana | Makana Aiona: Social media role model
MAKANA’S HELPFUL HINTS Today’s Tip: Be a social media role model. Help young adults learn to face temptation and delete it. Each generation is defined by a unique set of characteristics. However, no matter the characteristics, every young adult goes through the same set of “developmental tasks,” cultivating (1) personal identity, (2) relationships, (3) meaning […]
Manaolana | Sidebar: Nov. 20, 2015
Quote “I would never dare to give permission for this because it is not in my authority.” | Pope Francis to a Lutheran woman married to a Catholic man who asked him what she and her husband could do to receive Communion together. The pope said he could not issue a general rule on shared […]
Miracles, Francis-style
The second time he passed by, we locked eyes for about a millisecond and it was one of the most exhilarating moments of my life.
Christina Capecchi: Searching for peace with help from a sage
TWENTY SOMETHING It is the book that somehow surfaces when you need it most — manna for the multi-tasker, solace for the stressed. It is the book you stock up on to give to others, to slip in Christmas stockings, to pay it forward. It is the book that spiritual directors recommend again and again: […]
Lisa’s catechism corner: What is envy, and how can you fight it?
Church teaching explained to you YOUCAT*: “Envy is sadness and annoyance at the sight of another’s well-being and the desire to acquire unjustly what others have. Anyone who wishes other people ill commits a serious sin. Envy decreases when we try to rejoice more and more in the accomplishments and gifts of others, when we […]
Makana’s helpful hints: Opportunities
Exciting ways to enhance young adult ministry Today’s tip: Provide opportunities for people to experience different forms of personal and group prayer Straight from the U.S. bishops’ “Pastoral Plan for Ministry with Young Adults, Sons and Daughters of the Light,” this week’s tip is about the foundation of growth, opportunity. One can only grow by […]
Manaolana | 10 ways to support her when she’s unexpectedly expecting
Your support might be the only support she receives. You can make a difference in her life. Will you? I had been brought up to believe that life is always a gift, but it certainly didn’t feel like one when I gazed in shock at a positive pregnancy test. As a mom who had my […]
Manaolana | Sidebar Oct. 23, 2015
Quote “One of Christ’s last acts on the cross was the forgiveness of a repentant thief. Certainly, the church forgives the person responsible for this crime. God offers his mercy as well.” | Bishop James D. Conley of the Diocese of Lincoln, Neb., in a statement Oct. 16 following the recovery of his pectoral cross […]
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