Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Bethlehem family feels privileged to live in a holy place

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By Judith Sudilovsky Catholic News Service BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Brothers Peter and Eli Hosh grew up knowing that their hometown was not only the place where they went to school and ran down to the corner market for their mother, but the town where Jesus was born. It is a lesson they and their […]

Early Kalaupapa Christmases

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“Christmas is coming and a New Year approaches and I send you my best wishes.” – Father Damien writing to his family in 1885 By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Christmas in Hawaii in the mid- to late-1800s was a much simpler holiday than today. On Molokai’s isolated Kalaupapa peninsula, where those suffering from Hansen’s […]

Vatican unveils its Nativity scene, lights Christmas tree

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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The Vatican unveiled the Nativity scene and lit the Christmas tree with energy-saving lights in St. Peter’s Square during a late afternoon ceremony Dec. 5. The 85-foot-tall spruce tree came from the forests of the Veneto region in northeast Italy and another 20 smaller trees were […]

Photo: Hugs and kisses

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This year’s 20th annual “Star Light, Star Bright” Christmas party for women inmates and their children at the Women’s Community Correctional Center in Kailua took place Dec. 7. The moms and their kids had a chance to decorate cookies, watch a puppet show tailored to them, play games, make arts and crafts, enjoy lunch and […]

Sarah and David Hermann: Be present during the Advent season

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EMBRACING FAMILY We prepare for basketball games and marathons, tests and job interview, birthdays and Thanksgiving dinner, Santa and Christmas. Preparing for sports events takes grit, perseverance and even pain. Preparing for birthdays and Thanksgiving dinner remind us to be grateful for every gift God has given us, to truly treasure our family and friends, […]

Photos: Christmas lights and sights

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Kalanianaole parish lights Those driving along Kalanianaole Highway in Kuliouou have been treated with many wondrous lights coming from Holy Trinity Church. The display is the work of about 35 parishioners who came together on a Sunday afternoon to decorate the outside of their church. They had no plan, just hundreds of lights, enthusiasm and […]

Merry mangers: Nativity scenes from around the world make up Bishop Larry Silva’s personal collection of crèches

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By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Tiny and tall. Manufactured and handmade. Local and internationally inspired. Close to 150 Nativity scenes fill the bookshelves of the St. Stephen Diocesan Center library this month, all of them a part of Bishop Larry Silva’s personal collection of manger scenes. This is the first year Honolulu’s bishop has […]