Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Sister Agnes Vera Hino, at 91, is still passing on lessons her parents taught her

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Franciscan Sister Agnes Vera Hino ‘God has kept me going’ Saint Francis School will host its annual gala Sept. 20 at the Pacific Beach Hotel Grand Ballroom to benefit its tuition assistance program and honor five alumnae who have made an impact on the school and community. This year’s theme is “Taking it Back to […]

Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Margaret Frances Kulage | 1907-2014

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Congregation’s oldest member, 107, served in Hawaii and the Philippines Maryknoll Sister Margaret Frances Kulage, who survived a boat capsizing in shark-infested Philippine waters and teaching assignments in Kalihi to become her congregation’s oldest member, died Aug. 28 at age 107 at the Maryknoll Sisters Home Care IV in Maryknoll, N.Y. She was a Maryknoll […]

Franciscans to celebrate Transitus, the passing of St. Francis of Assisi

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The Sisters of Saint Francis of the Neumann Communities are hosting their annual Transitus celebration on Friday, Oct. 3, at Saint Francis Convent, 2715 Pamoa Road, in Manoa Valley. The Transitus commemorates the passage from death to eternal life of St. Francis of Assisi, celebrated worldwide by Franciscans on the eve of their patron’s feast […]

New arrivals of religious sisters assigned to parish, school, evangelization ministries

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Here are some of the more recent assignments of religious sisters to Hawaii. Sister Michael Anne O’Donnell, OSF Sister Michael Anne, a Franciscan Sister of Charity of Manitowoc, Wis., has been appointed to St. Theresa Church in Kekaha, Kauai. Originally from Ohio, Sister Michael Anne comes from a large household of two families which consisted […]

The ‘mana’ of St. Marianne: Saint’s remains welcomed home

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Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities sing a hymn to St. Francis as others look on after the enshrinement of St. Marianne’s remains at the cathedral. A small relic of the saint was placed on top of the tapa-and-lei-covered zinc box that holds the saint’s remains. (HCH photo | Darlene Dela Cruz)   […]

Obituary: Sister Florence Remata, OSF | 1939-2014

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Educator was head of Hawaii-Southwest Sisters of St. Francis Sister Florence Remata, the minister of the Hawaii-Southwest Region of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities, fulfilled one of her favorite quotations, “All things are passing; God alone suffices,” when she passed into eternity on Aug. 3, at Queen’s Medical Center after a […]

Viriditas: Sister Theresa Chow, Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities

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‘Marianne, Damien, take care of this’ Several years ago, the Bishop Museum was sponsoring a talk on the future of Kalaupapa. Many of the sisters went because we wanted to know what Steve Prokop, the superintendent of Kalaupapa National Park, envisioned. He looked at us directly and said that it would be good if there […]