By Lei Kondo Special to the Herald Celebrating the 18th annual feast day of Divine Mercy Sunday, April 8, parishioners of Blessed Sacrament Church in Pauoa Valley, welcomed the image of the Divine Mercy — a picture of Jesus with rays of red and white light streaming from his heart — at the 7 a.m. […]
Local voices: A day of spiritual enrichment: women only
By Wendy Ford Special to the Herald On a breezy but nice Saturday morning in March, considering the worrisome weather earlier in the week, a hundred women gathered at St. Elizabeth Church in Aiea, to attend the parish’s first Women’s Retreat. To say it was a happy day for Sister Maristella Umdor would have been […]
LOCAL VOICES | Maureen Saturnio: Lessons of love
As a mother of a young man who was born with Down syndrome, I was so happy to read in the Feb. 23 Hawaii Catholic Herald about delightful little Lucas Warren, the “Gerber spokesbaby” for 2018. Wonderful! It is about time that they are treated normally. I have to admit that I was in pain […]