CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS April is the month our country has dedicated to celebrating diversity. Meanwhile, in our Universal Church, there is a four-year process of listening to its members to provide a framework of discussion for the 2024 Synod of Bishops in Rome. The most recent phase of the process, the continental stage, ended on […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: Digital tools for your Lenten journey
CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS Lent has become a time to give up social media. I get that! However, I’d like to suggest that giving up on digital tools that could help you pray more, fast, or give to those in need isn’t the best idea. Our phones are a part of our daily walk through life. […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: Celebrating Catholic education
CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS The first month of the year is dedicated to prayer for Catholic education. It is fitting that we celebrate these amazing institutions when the feast days of their champions are celebrated. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton is the patron saint of U.S. Catholic schools and the first American to be canonized. St. John […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: Digital tools to share your Advent
SOCIAL CHURCH TIPS Digital tools to share your Advent By Sherry Hayes-Peirce One of the most visible symbols of the Advent season is the wreath we place in our homes, lighting a candle on it for each of the four weeks on the journey to Christmas. Creating a unique Advent wreath every year with your […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: A decade of sainthood
CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS On Oct. 21, 2012, Hawaii celebrated the second saint from our Catholic ‘ohana. This year marks the 10th anniversary of that blessed day in Rome when our beloved Mother Marianne Cope was canonized. Sister Alicia Damien Lau, a sister of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities, participated in the canonization Mass 10 […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: Talking with your pandemic-impacted teens
CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS Sparking conversations with today’s teens is hard! Two years of living in a pandemic have affected the mental health of our teenagers in extraordinary ways. Social isolation shined a light on the anxiety, depression and other mental illnesses plaguing teens and college students. The book “Three Big Questions That Can Change Every […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: The pope’s latest prayer intention
CATHOLIC SOCIAL TIPS Every month our Holy Father Pope Francis asks us to pray for a specific intention. For the month of July, the intention is the elderly. Every ohana, or family, should cherish its members who are the largest branches of the family tree, the kupuna, or elders. “Stand up in the presence of […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: Join the eucharistic revival
CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS Every Sunday at Mass we are invited to sit at the table of the Lord and behold the mystery of the bread and wine being consecrated and transformed into the real presence of the body and blood of Christ. For many Catholics, this tenet of our faith has simply become symbolic. “I […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: Ambassadors of aloha
CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS Hearing the news that the Pauline Book and Media store was closing in Honolulu made me a little sad. But I also know that the Daughters of St. Paul who have been assigned to Hawaii will carry the culture of aloha wherever they go, reflecting the diversity of this amazing religious order. […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: Six ways to celebrate Eastertide
CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS Alleluia! This year the joy of Easter is amplified by the opportunity to celebrate Mass in person as a community for the first time in two years without limitations. Families will most certainly gather in the way that they are most comfortable. Many have referred to Lent 2020 being extended through the […]