Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Sister Mary Ann Tupy, OSF, Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity: The prayer of this day

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewd by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald I have always believed that our religious communities speak for God and that when they ask us sisters to take on a new ministry or to move to another place, that is God asking us to do his work in a new […]

Father Emerson Delos Reyes, diocesan priest: Finding God in everything

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald Saint Francis of Assisi has been a great inspiration to me. He was a lover of nature, and found God in even the smallest flower. For many of us, the tiny flowers that come out especially during summer may not seem to […]

Sister Maria Dina Danos, Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary: Prayer as a bank deposit

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald Prayer is like a gift from God. I remember learning how to pray when I was in the third grade. I wasn’t taught by my parents or teachers how to pray, it just happened. Later in high school, I always made it […]

Father Victor Lanuevo, diocesan priest: Living in dying

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Special to the Herald Whenever you feel helpless, when you are in a confining, limiting situation with few options, embrace that condition and live it in your own way; and then you can overcome anything that bothers you. Even if you don’t know what happens […]

Sister Gioan Linh Nguyen, Daughters of St. Paul: The grace of the moment

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald Before one elevated feast day, I remember gathering with the youth and young adults of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace to clean the cathedral. Underneath the pews we found a lot of gum which we were then tasked with scraping […]

Sister Estelita Jamelo, Dominican Sister of the Most Holy Rosary: The smiles of God’s grace

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald When I first arrived in Hawaii in 1991 from the Philippines, I struggled with the English language. People used to speak so fast that I could not understand them. Whenever they talked to me, I needed to translate it into my native […]

St. Damien’s ‘life of mercy’ celebrated on the Big Island

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  By Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald “There are not too many parishes that can claim to have had an actual saint as its pastor,” quipped Father Stephen Macedo, pastor of Annunciation Parish in Waimea, as he pointed to the traveling relic of St. Damien de Veuster placed before the congregation. According […]

Sister sisters

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Dorothy Santos (right) followed a religious calling close to home. Tomboy Cecelia Santos, lit with missionary fire, wanted to go to China Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald Sacred Hearts Sister Dorothy Santos and Maryknoll Sister Cecelia Santos are blood sisters who grew up on a ranch in up-country Makawao, Maui. […]

Father Anastacio ‘Jun’ Postrano, diocesan priest: Living a sacramental life

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald I always wanted to be a priest. When I was in the Philippines, most of the priests around were Maryknoll Fathers. We did not have a local clergy then. The Maryknoll Fathers were very active, visible missionaries who built up the faithful […]

Father Thomas Choo, Congregation of the Sacred Hearts: The prayer of the sigh

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald There is a story of a person who was rushing to finish work and everything else in order to get to the mosque on time for prayer. Unfortunately, he still arrived late and wasn’t able to participate in the service. In great […]