“Lord Jesus Christ, you have taught us to be merciful like the heavenly Father, and have told us that whoever sees you sees him. Shows us your face and we will be saved.” Gathered in the living room of the “Mercy House” on Nov. 27, friends and benefactors of this special project prayed these words in unison.
Talk story | Office for Social Ministry: Have a very Mercy Christmas!
“We are called to enlarge the horizons of our hearts, to be surprised by the life that is presented each day with its newness.” (Pope Francis’ 2016 Advent message) This year Advent challenged us to enlarge the horizons of our hearts and be surprised by the celebration of new life revealed in the mystery we might call “Mercy Christmas.”
Talk story: Shown mercy, we are its vessels
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “I am loved, therefore I exist; I am forgiven, therefore I am reborn; I have been shown mercy, therefore I have become a vessel of mercy.” (Pope Francis’ Apostolic Letter at the Conclusion of the Extraordinary Year of Mercy) Although the Jubilee Year of Mercy has come to a close, inspiring […]
Talk story: A year of ‘mercy ministries’
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY A Thanksgiving roundup of Island Catholic efforts to reach out to the most vulnerable around us “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you […]
Talk story: Focus on the vulnerable
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Jesus’ concern for the care of the hungry, the thirsty, the homeless and prisoners (cf. Mt 25:34-40) sought to express the core of the Father’s mercy. This becomes a moral imperative for the whole of society that wishes to maintain the necessary conditions for a better common life.” (Pope Francis) November […]
Talk Story: October stories of hope
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” (Hebrews 11:1) Despite a record rainfall flooding downtown Hilo on Oct. 5, more than 200 people, including folks from parishes across Hawaii island, gathered at Sangha Hall for the Hawaii Island Inter-Faith Coalition on Homelessness […]
Talk story: Francis-inspired dialogue
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “I do not want to write this encyclical without turning to that attractive and compelling figure, whose name I took as my guide and inspiration when I was elected Bishop of Rome. I believe that St. Francis is the example par excellence of care for the vulnerable and of an integral […]
Talk story: The cry of the poor, the cry of the earth
OFFICE OF SOCIAL MINISTRY “The poor and the earth are crying out. O Lord, seize us with your power and light, help us to protect all life, to prepare for a better future, for the coming of your Kingdom of justice, peace love and beauty.” (Pope Francis’ closing prayer in “Laudato Si’,” the pope’s […]
Talk story: Setting prisoners free
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “The Lord secures justice for the oppressed … sets the prisoners free … lifts up those who are bowed down” (Psalm 146:7 quoted by Pope Francis in his call to the Jubilee Year of Mercy) As we enter the last months of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, families from around Oahu […]
Talk story: Story sessions share closeness to poor
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Our faith in Christ, who became poor, and was always close to the poor and the outcast, is the basis of our concern for the integral development of society’s most neglected members.” (Pope Francis) This summer has been full of folks “talking story” about encountering God through parish social ministries with […]
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