Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Photo: Breaking ground in Ewa Beach

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Armed with their Hawaiian o‘o digging sticks, officials symbolically break ground Aug. 20 for the new Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Ewa Beach. They are, from left, David Hubbard, president of Design Build Hawaii; Father Edmundo N. Barut, pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help; Bishop Larry Silva; David Pfeifer, principal/architect of Domus […]

Photo: A day for women

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Participants in a one-day women’s conference, Aug. 6 at St. Elizabeth Church in Aiea, pose for a group photo. The theme for the day, which was organized by Sister Meristella Umdor, parish director of religious education, was “The Eucharist.” (Photo courtesy of Sister Meristella Umdor, MSMHC)

Photo: Remarkable illumination

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Here is a photo taken by James Wallace of the sidewalk outside Planned Parenthood Hawaii June 5, Pentecost Sunday, showing a stunning beam of light shining on an eight-foot image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, who tradition says is portrayed pregnant. Also caught in the shaft of light is a “Pray to End Abortion” sign […]

Photo: All the way from India

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Wearing leis, Mother Philomena Mathew, superior general of the Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians of Guwahati, Assam, in northeast India, is greeted at the convent of her sisters in Aiea July 26. Hawaii has four Missionary Sisters of Mary working in parishes on Oahu. Mother Philomena also visited her Hawaii community’s first lay […]

Photo: Specially blessed

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Bishop Larry Silva presents Father Konelio Faletoi, pastor of St. Michael Parish, Kailua-Kona, with an apostolic blessing from Pope Francis, July 1, at the diaconate ordination Mass for Arrion Rosales-Llantos. The occasion was Father Faletoi’s 30th anniversary of ordination. The blessing was arranged by St. Michael parochial vicar Father Jaroslaw Skrzypek. For his 25th ordination […]

Photo: Happy Holy Ghost Feast

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Father Anthony Rapozo, pastor at St. John Apostle and Evangelist Parish in Mililani, poses with the “royal court” of the parish’s first annual Holy Ghost Feast, June 5, Pentecost Sunday, at the 11 a.m. Mass. The Holy Ghost Feast is a traditional Portuguese cultural celebration introduced to the islands by Portuguese immigrants. Pictured with Father […]

Photo: Body of Christ at Christ the King

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La Salette Father Augustine Uthuppu, pastor of Christ the King Parish in Kahului, Maui, carries the monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament under a canopy held by members of the Knights of Columbus as he leads parishioners in a procession celebrating the feast of Corpus Christi (the Body of Christ) June 19. The Corpus Christi procession […]

Photos: Taking Christ to the street

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Top, acolytes lead the Corpus Christi procession up Nuuanu Avenue about a block from their destination, the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, June 19, where Bishop Larry Silva presided over Benediction. The mile-and-a-half long procession started at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa at noon. The celebration of the feast of Corpus Christi marked […]