FOR THE JOURNEY When I was growing up in a small Midwestern farm community, I was vaguely aware of rich folks. There were prosperous lawyers, business owners, Dad’s cousin who owned the grain mill. Our family struggled on a small dryland farm, made more challenging by my dad’s ill health. But as a kid, I […]
Laura Kelly Fanucci: Sharpen your pencils for the school of love
FAITH AT HOME Did you know the family is a school of love? The Second Vatican Council declared this teaching, St. John Paul II deepened it and Pope Francis affirmed it. Our Catechism of the Catholic Church spells it out clearly: The family is “a community of grace and prayer, a school of human virtues […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Jesus is the key to God’s kingdom
21ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Isaiah 66:18-21; Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13; Luke 13:22-30 The Book of Isaiah provides the first reading for this weekend. Isaiah is a fascinating book of Scripture. It covers a long period of Hebrew history. Its early chapters deal with events and conditions in the southern Hebrew kingdom of Judah, before the […]
Father Clement Beeri, diocesan priest: The joys of interacting with the people
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald One of the greatest joys of being a parish priest is interacting with the people. For example, I am constantly amazed when people are edified by certain words or scriptural passages I might mention in the homily which they tell me about […]
Mary Duddy: An introduction
THE MARRIED LIFE The Hawaii Catholic Herald welcomes a new local columnist, Mary Duddy, who will write on marriage and family issues, topics with which she is very familiar. She won’t necessarily appear in every issue, but as inspiration strikes. Here is her introduction. My husband Tom and I came to Hawaii on orders from […]
Carolyn Woo: When expectations yield to love
OUR GLOBAL FAMILY This summer marks the special occasions of David’s and my 40th anniversary and the marriage of our older son Ryan to Sarah, our new daughter. In one of the prewedding festivities, I asked the men gathered, married from 10 to 50 years, what advice they have for the groom-to-be. They responded with […]
Father Eugene Hemrick: The blessing of reality checks
THE HUMAN SIDE “I have observed Satan falling like lightning from the sky” (Lk 10:18). Jesus instructed the Twelve: “Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves” (Mt 10:16). Avoiding being like Satan, who was dispelled from heaven because of pride, and […]
Msgr. Owen Campion: The heavenly banquet awaits
19TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Wisdom 18:6-9; Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19; Luke 12:35-40 The Book of Wisdom is the source of the first reading for this weekend. Always standing high in any ancient Jewish perception of God and religion was the story of the Exodus, when God guided the Hebrews from Egypt where they had been […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: What did Mary do during Jesus’ ministry?
QUESTION CORNER Q: I am wondering what Mary did and where she lived during the three years of Jesus’ ministry. Did she travel with the “women who ministered to him”? (Wichita, Kansas) A: In the Gospels, once the public ministry of Jesus has begun, Mary is mentioned in only a few scenes. We can assume […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Beyond the exit signs
WITNESS TO JESUS | 14TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME This is the prepared text of Bishop Larry Silva’s the homily for the Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time delivered July 6 at the blessing of the renovated sanctuary at St. Anthony Church, Kailua, and July 7 at the installation of new pastors at the Co-Cathedral of […]
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