Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

The chancery at your service

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The Office of Worship is one example of how diocesan administrative offices have shifted into full gear helping parishes through the coronavirus crisis By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald The Hawaii Catholic Schools office has spent many hours advising local Catholic schools on budgets and virtual learning. The diocesan human resources office has worked with […]

Loss and sadness

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Catholic educators work to ease blow of pandemic-induced school closings By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service CLEVELAND — The announcement that two historic Catholic schools in the Diocese of Worcester, Massachusetts, were closing for good as the academic year ended sent a wave of loss and sadness across the diocese. St. Mary’s Schools, founded in […]

Diocese issues coronavirus guidelines for ministries, meetings

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View this post on Instagram A post shared by EPIC Ministry (@epicministryhi) A socially distanced meeting of EPIC Ministry on June 22. The Knights of Columbus may meet again. So can religious education classes and the parish pastoral council. The Diocese of Honolulu is now open for other activities and ministries in addition to Mass. […]

Photo: International quarantined choir

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Dominican Sister Malia Dominica Wong was interviewing a sister June 17 at the Sacred Hearts Sisters’ Malia o ka Malu convent in Kaimuki when she heard “angelic” singing coming from the chapel. Checking out the source of the beautiful music she found a choir of familiar and unfamiliar faces. The familiar faces belonged to Hawaii’s […]

Ace Tui is ordained a deacon in a socially distanced but joyful liturgy

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By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald The seats were spaced apart and the crowd was smaller than usual at Deacon Ese’ese “Ace” Tui’s diaconal ordination. But joyous choir music, striking altar decorations and a supportive crowd filled any gaps left by COVID-19’s social distancing measures. Bishop Larry Silva ordained Tui a “transitional” deacon — so-called […]

The men behind the cameras

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A father-son team brings you, live on the internet, Masses from the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald If you’ve watched any of the streaming Masses at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady Peace in Honolulu from Holy Week on, you’re watching the handiwork of John Fielding. Fielding, […]

Welcome home: Going back to church after two and a half months was a heartening, if tentative, experience

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald “Do you want the 4 p.m. or the 5:30 p.m.?” Because of social distancing rules, St. Elizabeth Parish in Aiea had added a second Saturday vigil Mass to the schedule as it anticipated a potential rush of parishioners coming back to church on Pentecost weekend when parishes were allowed […]

Sherry Hayes-Peirce: Online evangelizing goes viral

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CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS During the nearly three months that our nation has been living under quarantine, our clergy have needed to shift their thinking about using non-traditional ways of evangelizing in the absence of in-person interaction. In the era of COVID-19, when an important way to connect with the faithful is online, some of our […]

Sarah and David Herrmann: God created one race: the human race

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EMBRACING FAMILY Every day we are asked to show our love as Christians: Going to church weekly; opening the door for someone; helping at a food bank; sending our children to Catholic schools or religious education; reading the Bible; forgiving our spouse; helping with homework; letting someone else choose the TV channel. We all know […]

Photos: Maryknoll mask donation

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The Maryknoll School family donated more than 2,500 reusable handmade fabric masks to two local nonprofit organizations, Lanakila Pacific and Navian Hawaii (formerly Hospice Hawaii), May 22, to help kupuna and nurses stay protected against COVID-19. For two-and-a-half weeks, using repurposed Maryknoll aloha-print fabric, families, alumni and community members took up needle and thread to […]