Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

A religious with ties to Hawaii takes temporary vows in St. Louis as a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet

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‘Enveloped and embraced’ By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald While only 75 people were able to attend the temporary vows of Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet Kristina DeNeve on June 15 at the Holy Family Chapel in St. Louis, Missouri, due to COVID-19 and distance, another 150 or so people logged on to the […]

Sister Ma. Teresa Ebanen, Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary: Ancestral values

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald My family’s farm in Iyasan village in Igbaras in the Philippines is an ancestral farm. It belongs to the Ebanen family. Having been passed down from grandfather and great-grandfather, my family continues certain traditions. Growing up, I remember walking 45 minutes across […]

In appreciation: What the Maui Marianists meant to me

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Maui resident and lay Marianist Norman Franco wrote this article on June 12 for Marianist Father Roland Bunda, pastor of St. Anthony Parish in Wailuku, Maui, and his fellow Marianists in appreciation for the group’s long presence on the Valley Isle. After 138 years, the brothers and fathers of the community, also known as the […]

Three Carmelite Seculars make their first promises

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Hawaii’s Discalced Carmelite Secular Group celebrated a “first promise” ceremony for three of its members June 5 in the Carmelite Monastery chapel on the grounds of St. Stephen Diocesan Center. Alda Mae Takabayashi, Elaine Gibson and Celia Ona made an initial three-year pledge to pursue personal holiness through Carmelite spirituality and to care for others […]

Bishop Silva moves forward with Joseph Dutton’s canonization cause

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Hawaii Catholic Herald A third Molokai saint? Bishop Larry Silva has moved forward the possibility of a third canonized saint emerging from the five-square mile Molokai peninsula already sanctified by the lives of 8,000 people forcibly quarantined there for having Hansen’s disease. A one-page edict, dated, read and posted by the bishop on May 29, […]

St. Joseph: a discreet and hidden presence

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This is the Year of St. Joseph. To mark the 150th anniversary of the foster father of Jesus being declared patron of the universal church, Pope Francis proclaimed the yearlong celebration in a Dec. 8, 2020, apostolic letter, “Patris Corde” (“With a Father’s Heart”). The pope wrote that Christians can discover in St. Joseph “the […]

India-born Missionary of Faith priest incardinated into diocese

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  By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Bishop Larry Silva on May 24 incardinated as a priest of the Diocese of Honolulu Father Sebastian Kumar Soosai, an India-born former member of the congregation of the Missionaries of Faith. The bishop also changed Father Soosai’s status from administrator of St. Roch Church, Kahuku, to pastor, effective […]