Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

8 St. Joseph band members headed to Rose Parade

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Eight lucky musicians in Hilo’s St. Joseph High School Band Program will join the Hawaii All-State Marching Band in the Tournament of Roses Parade on Jan. 1 next year in Pasadena, Calif. They are Cole DeSilva, Nathan Ducasse, Fiona Follett, Koa Galves, Richard Kwon, Nicole Lee, Wendy Park and Sarina Wyrick. The students were nominated […]

Carnegie Hall, here they come: St. Anthony High School band heads for the big time

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It’s been a “crazy year,” said St. Anthony Junior-Senior High school band director Everett Yamashita. Well, the idea itself sounds a bit outlandish — a band from a small Maui Catholic high school playing Carnegie Hall. But it’s going to happen, and on April Fool’s Day yet. The 40-plus musicians of the Wailuku school’s symphonic […]

BILAC’s Maui ‘franchise,’ VILAC, debuts in April

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First there was BILAC. Now there’s VILAC. For more than 35 years, BILAC (Big Island Liturgy and Arts Conference) has provided communitarian-based experiences of prayer, the liturgical arts and spiritual growth for hundreds of participants. Starting in April, VILAC (Valley Isle Liturgy and Arts Conference) hopes to do the same annually on Maui. BILAC was […]

Hawaii celebrates St. Marianne back at her Kalaupapa home

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The final major event for the canonization of Hawaii’s new saint is attended by the apostolic nuncio, the president of the U.S. bishops conference, the bishop of Syracuse and hundreds more Hawaii held its final major event celebrating the canonization of St. Marianne Cope in the same place she practiced her inexhaustible charity, mostly unseen, […]