Year of Consecrated life: Nov. 30, 2014 – Feb. 2, 2016 Come and see! Coming to your parish and school! The Diocese of Honolulu is sending a special display celebrating the religious life to every parish and school in Hawaii through the Year of Consecrated Life. Here is the schedule for the next few weeks. […]
Blessed Sacrament Fathers elect two Hawaii-assigned priests to national leadership positions
Two Hawaii members of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament were elected last month to leadership positions for their community’s Province of Saint Ann which encompasses the United States. Father Robert Stark and Father John Keenen were elected provincial treasurer and provincial consulter, respectively, at the province’s 24th chapter at the Bethany Retreat Center in […]
Sister Mary Vianney Uyeno: ‘Here are my hands, take me’
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING I grew up on a sugar plantation, the Nisshi camp in Waipahu, the seventh of 10 children. During the summer we worked in the cane or pineapple fields, and in the cannery. It was a lot of hard work, but we enjoyed it. Whatever we earned helped our poor family. I knew […]
Year of Consecrated life: Come and see! Coming to your parish and school!
Year of Consecrated life Nov. 30, 2014 – Feb. 2, 2016 Come and see! Coming to your parish and school! The Diocese of Honolulu is sending a special display celebrating the religious life to every parish and school in Hawaii through the Year of Consecrated Life. Here is the schedule for December. Dec. 6-7: Holy […]
Photo: New provincial leaders
Nov. 5 was election day for the members of the U.S. province of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts. Elected provincial superior for a second term was Father Johnathan Hurrell. Also re-elected were vicar provincial Father Stan Kolasa of Massachusetts and second councilor Father Herman Gomes of Hawaii. Father Martin Gomes of Massachusetts was picked […]
Last year, diocese collected $104,000 for retired elderly religious women and men
The Diocese of Honolulu contribution last year to the national collection for the Retirement Fund for Religious was $104,362.46. The year’s collection is Dec. 13-14. The appeal helps more than 35,000 elderly religious order sisters, brothers and priests. This year, the retirement fund gave financial assistance to two local religious communities: the Benedictine Monastery of […]
Photo: A tune of appreciation
Sisters from several religious orders join in “singing for their supper” at the Serra Club of Honolulu’s 22nd annual religious appreciation dinner at the parish hall of Blessed Sacrament Church on Nov. 6. The Serra Club is an organization of lay men and women devoted to promoting and sustaining vocations to consecrated religious life, the […]
Remembrance | Sister Rosanne LaManche, OSF: She left her heart in Kalaupapa
Sister Rosanne LaManche served as a Franciscan nun for more than 75 years and a nurse for 53, but she needed only an instant to name the most cherished days of her long career. “I’m most grateful for my time at Kalaupapa,” she said during an interview 12 years ago at her motherhouse in Syracuse, […]
Viriditas: Father Harold Meyer, Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists) — part 2
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING The contemplative lifestyle As Trappists, we have the three pillars of the Divine Office, manual labor and lectio divina that create the contemplative lifestyle that supports us. Whether I am in choir or in the orchard, by myself or in community, all throughout the day and night, time is punctuated with prayer. […]
Diocese preparing to celebrate ‘Year of Consecrated Life’
Dominican Sister Malia Dominica Wong displays a poster she created celebrating consecrated life in Hawaii. The poster is part of the material being distributed to parishes and schools. (HCH photo | Darlene Dela Cruz) “What does ‘consecrated’ mean?” Dominican Sister Malia Dominica Wong asked the assembly of students at St. Anthony School in Kailua, […]
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