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Sherry Hayes-Peirce: Digital tools to share your Advent

11/23/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

SOCIAL CHURCH TIPS Digital tools to share your Advent By Sherry Hayes-Peirce One of the most visible symbols of the Advent season is the wreath we place in our homes, lighting a candle on it for each of the four weeks on the journey to Christmas. Creating a unique Advent wreath every year with your […]

Sister Philisita Jyrwa, Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians: To the farthest mission

11/23/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIRIDITAS2: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald India is a diverse country with different castes, cultures and clans. I am from a tribal culture. In my family’s clan system, which is matrilineal, our title is inherited. Our language, food, dress, lifestyle, ceremonial rites and even burial systems are different […]

Bishop Larry Silva: She heard the cry of the poor

11/09/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

WITNESS TO JESUS | 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time Here is the prepared text of Bishop Silva’s homily for the 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time, delivered Oct. 23 at St. Francis Church, Kalaupapa, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the canonization of St. Marianne Cope (Oct. 21) I can imagine a very lonely […]

Effie Caldarola: ‘Take care to guard against all greed’

11/09/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

FOR THE JOURNEY My great-grandfather, a refugee from the devastating famine in Ireland, came to Nebraska to farm. Generations later, I grew up on that farm. I have roots — literal and figurative — in the land he purchased, a very small acreage of which I still own. These roots help me to identify with […]

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: God will triumph

11/09/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

33RD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Malachi 3:19-20a; 2 Thessalonians 3:7-12; Luke 21:5-19 The Book of Malachi is the source of this weekend’s first reading. Malachi was not a proper name for a person in ancient Israel. Rather, it was an abbreviation of an informal title, “Messenger of God.” This prophet is thoroughly in step with […]

Mary Duddy: Be thankful for your spouse

11/09/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

THE MARRIED LIFE “Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.” (1 Chronicles 16:34) Recently I was sitting in a chair at Kailua Beach and I noticed several people with dogs. Lots of dogs. Some dogs were running; some dogs were catching balls their owners threw into the water. Some […]

Brother Salvador “Buddy” J. Yanzon, Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament: In the hands of God

11/09/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIRIDITAS2: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald “When are you coming back?” asked some parishioners at Mary, Star of the Sea Catholic Church. “We are waiting for you,” they continued. “We will see what God’s plans are,” I responded. As one formerly engaged in the life of the church […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: May I marry in a Catholic church? Why the pulpit scolding?

11/09/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

QUESTION CORNER Q: I was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church. When I was younger, I served as an altar boy for several years. About 12 years ago, I got married in a Methodist church. I never had the marriage “convalidated” in the Catholic Church since my wife was against involving another member of […]

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: The longing of Zacchaeus

10/26/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

31ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Wisdom 11:22-12:2; 2 Thessalonians 1:11-22; Luke 19:1-10 The Book of Wisdom provides this weekend’s first reading. As the natural environment has absorbed more and more public interest, the pope and other agencies of the church have addressed the problems of exploiting nature. This reading, while composed many, many centuries ago, […]