The annual diocesan Baccalaureate Mass went online and switched to an interactive Zoom prayer service with Bishop Larry Silva. Coordinated through the Office of Youth and Young Adult ministry, the May 21, 7 p.m. virtual gathering lasted an hour and had 73 participants logged in. A Q&A with Bishop Silva was followed by the prayer […]
‘Thanks be to God!’ Honolulu mayor gives go-ahead to public services
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald “Thanks be to God!” That was Bishop Larry Silva’s reaction to the “great news” coming from Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s office May 21 allowing public worship services with proper coronavirus restrictions starting Saturday, May 23. However, parishes will not be ready to open that soon, the bishop said, and asked […]
Missing friends more than graduation ceremonies
Local Catholic twelfth graders share about the impact of COVID-19 on the end of high school By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Like twelfth graders across the country, Hawaii Catholic school seniors have seen a radical change to the end of their high school careers after the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. Instead of senior […]
Priests designated essential workers in ministry to the dying
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Priests, in adherence to their duty to deliver sacraments to the dying, have been designated essential workers in Hawaii during this time of the coronavirus. This means they are permitted to hear the confessions of patients, to anoint them and to give them holy Communion, under the restrictions of […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Do not let your hearts be troubled
WITNESS TO JESUS | FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER This is the prepared text of Bishop Larry Silva’s homily for the Fifth Sunday of Easter delivered May 10 during a private livestreamed Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu. If this were not a Sunday, today we would be celebrating the […]
Masks with double the saintly protection prove popular
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald “This project has been the most spiritually rewarding that I have encountered in my 76 years,” said Wendy Wylder who has been sewing face masks with the aloha-print fabric images of Hawaii’s two saints. Ever since the Hawaii Catholic Herald ran a story last month about the Waialua parishioner […]
Father Eugene Hemrick: Something missing in the Mass
THE HUMAN SIDE While watching Mass on television at St. Mathew’s Cathedral in Washington, I thanked God for technology, and especially its gift to shut-ins. Yet seeing empty pews made me feel something was missing. Lacking was an aging parishioner ascending church steps with difficulty. He could easily be excused, but Mass means everything to […]
Carolyn Woo: ‘Thank you’ is not enough
THE GLOBAL FAMILY One of my routines in the early pandemic lockdown was to shop at a big-box retailer at 6 a.m. Along with food, a key purchase was fabric and supplies that allowed me to make face masks with my very rudimentary sewing skills. Over the weeks, I struck up a rapport with the […]
Effie Caldarola: Don’t bottle up emotions
FOR THE JOURNEY Have you had a good cry lately? I have. I saw a Twitter post about a cheerful old fellow in an English care facility who slept with his late wife’s photo every night. So, a thoughtful staff member had a photo company create a pillow for him, one side of which displayed […]
Email scammers prey on COVID-19 generosity and fears to get money, gift cards
Reminder: Bishop Larry Silva will never email or otherwise contact you to ask that you buy and send him gift cards, money or gifts. Recent emails circulating to local Catholic churches, schools and diocesan employees are pretending to be the bishop or perhaps another church official. The phishing emails usually ask the recipient to […]
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