YOUCAT*: To believe in the Holy Spirit means to worship him as God just like the Father and the Son. It means to believe that the Holy Spirit comes into our hearts so that we as children of God might know our Father in heaven. Moved by God’s Spirit, we can change the face of [...]
Offertory protections: Hawaii parish collection procedures to be audited
Surprise audits are coming to the Islands’ 66 parishes in an effort by the diocese to ensure that money collected from Mass offertories is being handled securely. According to diocesan finance officer Lisa Sakamoto, representatives from the local firm Acuity will visit each parish “soon” (the diocese is not divulging the schedule) to observe the [...]
Five days of fraternity: Priests to gather for annual convocation
It will be hard to find a priest in Hawaii next week, unless you are staying at the Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu’s north shore, where you will run into about 115 of them. May has arrived and that means “convocation” time for all Island priests. It’s their annual gathering where they build fraternity and [...]
On his 60th year as a missionary, La Salette Father Rene Bisaillon has tales to tell
Father Rene Bisaillon, a retired Missionary of our Lady of La Salette in residence at St. Theresa Church in Kekaha, Kauai, missed being listed among those celebrating jubilee years of their religious professions and ordinations in the March 29 Hawaii Catholic Herald. Father “Biz,” as he is affectionately known, came to Hawaii in 1991 after [...]
Bishop Silva to lead annual Corpus Christi co-cathedral-to-cathedral street procession
Bishop Larry Silva on June 2 will lead the diocese’s annual 1.25-mile Corpus Christi procession from the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa in Kalihi-Palama to the downtown Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace. The observance of the feast, also known as the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, will begin with [...]
To meet the unmeetable needs: Two Punahou grads meet, converse in Taiwan
I am from Kailua. Jeff is from Honolulu. Both of us studied at Punahou School and embraced religious life after. I taught in Taiwan back in the 1980s. Jeff will complete in July his first year of teaching at Taiwan’s Fu Jen Catholic University. I came home to minister to the unmet needs in Hawaii; [...]
Obituary: Carondelet Sister Julia Marie Acain
Sister Julia Marie Acain, a Maui girl who, with her sister Catherine, joined the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet 60 years ago and enjoyed a long fruitful career in education, died on April 20 in Makawao, Maui. She was 79. Sister Julia Marie was a teacher in California, on Oahu and Maui, and was [...]